Editing Edwin Howard Armstrong (section)

==Personal life==

[[Image:First portable radio, 1923 -b.jpg|thumb|Armstrong and his new wife Esther Marion McInnis in Palm Beach in 1923. The radio is a portable superheterodyne that Armstrong built as a present for her.]]

In 1923, combining his love for high places with courtship rituals, Armstrong climbed the [[WABC (AM)|WJZ]] (now WABC) antenna located atop a 20-story building in New York City, where he reportedly did a handstand, and when a witness asked him what motivated him to "do these damnfool things", Armstrong replied "I do it because the spirit moves me."<ref>Dreher (1976), page 46.</ref> Armstrong had arranged to have photographs taken, which he had delivered to David Sarnoff's secretary, Marion McInnis.<ref>Lewis (1991), page 160. Three of the photographs are included in the pictorial section between pages 118-119.</ref> Armstrong and McInnis married later that year.<ref name="Wu-126" /> Armstrong bought a [[Hispano-Suiza]] motor car before the wedding, which he kept until his death, and which he drove to Palm Beach, Florida for their honeymoon. A publicity photograph was made of him presenting Marion with the world's first portable superheterodyne radio as a wedding gift.<ref name="Lessing-320" />

He was an avid tennis player until an injury in 1940, and drank an [[Old fashioned (cocktail)|Old Fashioned]] with dinner.<ref name="Lessing-320" /> Politically, he was described by one of his associates as "a revolutionist only in technology – in politics he was one of the most conservative of men."<ref>Dreher (1976), page 208.</ref>

In 1955, Marion Armstrong founded the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, and participated in its work until her death in 1979 at the age of 81. She was survived by two nephews and a niece.<ref name="Esther">{{cite news |title=Esther Armstrong, 81, the Wife Of Inventor of FM Radio System |issn=0362-4331 |page=A13 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 10, 1979}}</ref>