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The popularity of the motion picture inspired many inventors to seek a method of reproducing accompanying sound. Two processes were involved: recording and reproducing. Further, the sound reproduction had to be presented in an auditorium and had to be quite good. This could not be achieved without a good amplifier of electrical signals. In 1907 Lee De Forest invented the Audion, a three-element vacuum tube, which provided the basis in the early 1920s for a feasible amplifier that produced an undistorted sound of sufficient loudness. Next came the problem of synchronization of the sound with the picture. A major difficulty ...(100 of 19892 words)

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