In 1913 Lee de Forest, inventor of the auditon tube, was brought to trial on charges of fraudulently using the US mails to sell public stock in the Radio Telephone Company. The District Attorney charged that:
"De Forest has said in many newspapers and over his signature that it would be possible to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic before many years. Based on these absurd and deliberately misleading statements, the misguided public ... has been persuaded to purchase stock in his company."
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