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LED Forty Years Older Than Thought

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the behind-the-iron-curtain dept.

LED lover writes "The discovery of the LED is usually credited to four US groups in 1962, but an unrecognized Russian genius got there forty years before. Oleg Losev even filed a patent on using his device for long range communications, and wrote to Einstein to ask for help with the theory — but got no reply."

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  1. Re:Skeptical by ebvwfbw · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm highly skeptical since he observed a diode before it was even created. Long before it was even created. If he was looking at anything, he was looking at a vacuum tube.