Today In History (January 11 1872) George Washington Pierce

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1872: Physicist and inventor George Washington Pierce is born in Webberville, Texas. He would go on to be a pioneer in telecommunications electronics, in 1920 inventing the Pierce crystal oscillator which bears his name and which was fundamental in the development of radio, television, and computers.