Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, called "The Major" by his friends (and "Howard" by his relatives), (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He received an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University. He was one of early broadcasting's pioneers. Holder of 42 patents, a respected professor at Columbia University (which established a foundation in his memory in 1955), Howard Armstrong was passionately committed to the improvement of radio technology. And although we have all benefited greatly from his work, he is not remembered the way radio's other pioneers are-- for some odd reason, men like Guglielmo Marconi or David Sarnoff or even his hated rival Lee DeForest receive much more credit than Armstrong ever did.

Armstrong was the inventor of the FM radio. He also invented the Regenerative circuit (invented while he was a junior in college at Columbia University, and patented 1914), the Super-regenerative......

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