{"id":7346,"date":"2014-05-03T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/03\/the-guy-who-invented-the-led\/"},"modified":"2014-05-03T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T01:20:00","slug":"the-guy-who-invented-the-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/03\/the-guy-who-invented-the-led\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guy who Invented the LED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m a big fan of Ira Flatow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/audio\/index.html#page\/full-width-list\/1\">&#8220;Science Friday&#8221;<\/a> radio program (recommended!) <\/strong><br \/> <strong>This week, while digging through the archives, I found this gem:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segment\/10\/12\/2012\/fifty-years-ago-a-bright-idea.html\">http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segment\/10\/12\/2012\/fifty-years-ago-a-bright-idea.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Ira Flatow&#8217;s &#8220;Science Friday&#8221; radio program (recommended!) This week, while digging through the archives, I found this gem: http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segment\/10\/12\/2012\/fifty-years-ago-a-bright-idea.html Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-led","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}