Edwin Howard Armstrong
An American electrical engineer who invented FM radio and made significant contributions to radio technology.
Most quoted
"The radio art is a peculiar one. It is not like the telephone, where you can talk to one person. It is like a public address system, where you talk to everybody, whether they want to listen or not."
— from Biography of Edwin Howard Armstrong
"The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture, or a retirement fund. The only real security is the ability to produce, to create, to invent."
— from Attributed
"I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so."
— from Attributed
All quotes by Edwin Howard Armstrong (356)
The battle for a new idea is often longer and harder than the invention itself.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
FM will bring music into the home with a clarity and realism never before possible.
The corporation's greatest weapon is not its engineers, but its lawyers.
I have given my life to radio. I have no other interests.
The fundamental laws of nature are simple. The best inventions are simple.
They can delay my patents, but they cannot stop the truth of the invention.
An invention is not truly complete until it is in the service of the public.
The static problem is solved. The future is wide-band FM.
I built my first radio station on the roof of my apartment building. They said I was mad.
The quest for perfection is what drives the inventor.
My only enemy is the entrenched interest that fears change.
The beauty of FM is in its mathematical purity. Noise is outside the band.
A man is judged by his works, not by his words.
I have fought the long defeat for what I believe is right.
Contemporaries of Edwin Howard Armstrong
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954).