Bust of Lee de Forest
date: label: date made
content: ca 1953
name: label: associated person
content: De Forest, Lee
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Bronze bust of triode inventor Lee de Forest made by Joseph D. Portanova. Bust was acquired by Cornell-Dubilier Company and, according to De Forest, was presented to him by William Dubilier as a gift. De Forest offered it to the Smithsonian in 1955 after seeing a small display of his early "Audion" tubes in the Arts & Industries Building.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from De Forest Sanabria Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.314629
label: catalog number
content: 314629
label: accession number
content: 206602
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bust
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 7 in x 7 in; 48.26 cm x 17.78 cm x 17.78 cm