Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Edwin Howard Armstrong

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Edwin Howard Armstrong

Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and included in the International Telecommunication Union's roster of great inventors.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words. — © Edwin Howard Armstrong
Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.
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