Edwin Howard Armstrong: Radio Pioneer

The Long Island Wireless Historical Society will offer a program about Edwin Howard Armstrong who had a close connection with Sayville, West Sayville, Bayport and Great River. Armstrong, who invented FM radio, sold several of his patents to the Telefunken Company when they were operating the radio station in West Sayville. Without these patents, it would have taken them much longer to be able to consistently reach Europe, and the West Sayville station was the first U.S. radio station to do this. Later after his marriage, Major Armstrong and his wife summered in Bayport. Armstrong worked with an associate who summered in Sayville. A lover of golf, he played that game in both Sayville and at Timberpoint.