Lieutenant Colonel Albert G. Lee (May 24, 1879 - August 26, 1967) was a British

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 pioneer.

Lee was born in Conwy

Conwy

Conwy is a walled market town and community in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales. The town, which faces Deganwy across the River Conwy, formerly lay in Gwynedd and prior to that in Caernarfonshire. Conwy has a population of 14,208...

, Wales

Wales

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, and in 1903 entered the British Post Office Engineering Service, where he designed and tested submarine and other cables. In World War I

World War I

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 he served in the Royal Engineers (Signal Service) commanding a telegraph construction company, and later was Officer-in-Charge, General Headquarters Signal Area. In 1920 Lee became involved with radios, and soon became Staff Engineer in charge of the radio section of the British Post Office. He was associated with the development of a coupled circuit arc, the Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, located on the River Avon. The town has a population of 61,988 making it the second largest town in the county...

 high-power station, and the transatlantic telephone and shortwave telephone service.

Lee was a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers

Institution of Electrical Engineers

The Institution of Electrical Engineers was a British professional organisation of electronics, electrical, manufacturing, and Information Technology professionals, especially electrical engineers. The I.E.E...

, and chaired its Wireless Section from 1927-1928. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers

Institute of Radio Engineers

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 in 1929, and awarded the IRE Medal of Honor

IEEE Medal of Honor

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in 1939 "for his accomplishments in promoting international radio services and in fostering advances in the art and science of radio communication."