Edwin Howard Armstrong
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Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American radio-frequency engineer and inventor who developed FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver system.
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Armstrong's boyhood home, overlooking the Hudson River in Yonkers, New York, c. 1975
Armstrong's "feed back" circuit drawing, from Radio Broadcast vol. 1 no. 1 1922.
Armstrong in his Signal Corps uniform during World War I
Armstrong explaining the superregenerative circuit, New York, 1922![Armstrong arranged for the construction of a transmission tower in Alpine, New Jersey, near New York City, and financed demonstration operation of W2XMN, the first FM radio station. W2XMN's antenna is mounted between the top two tiers, visible as a vertical line at the far upper right.[41]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Armstrong_FM_radio_station_W2XMN_Alpine_NJ_1940.jpg/500px-Armstrong_FM_radio_station_W2XMN_Alpine_NJ_1940.jpg)
Armstrong arranged for the construction of a transmission tower in Alpine, New Jersey, near New York City, and financed demonstration operation of W2XMN, the first FM radio station. W2XMN's antenna is mounted between the top two tiers, visible as a vertical line at the far upper right.[41]
Armstrong and his new wife Esther Marion McInnis in Palm Beach in 1923. The radio is a portable superheterodyne that Armstrong built as a present for her.Awards 9
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About this person
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1890 to 1954 · aged 63
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