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Ted De Boer
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right Ted De Boer (1921-2005) was the Founder of the National Inventors Foundation (parent organization of the Inventors Assistance League), which is the first federally chartered non-profit organization for the purpose of educating the creative individual since the patent law was established in 1790. He spent the last 30 years solving the problems of independent inventors and creative people. Born on an Iowa farm in 1921, he became interested in radio and helped neighbors to string up antennas. Beyond the commercial bands, he listened to short-wave radio and became a radio amateur. He attended Grand Rapids Community College, Calvin College, New York University and RCA Institutes. In 1945 Ted worked at the United Nations Conference on International Organization which was the founding meeting of the United Nations. At this conference in San Francisco, California he met with Lord Halifax of England, Wellington Koo of China and Vyacheslav Molotov and Andrei Gromyko of Russia. He also worked with on his aircraft auto-pilot and automatic radio-direction finder. Ted tracked satellites in the South Pacific and missile re-entry instrumentation in the Western Pacific on the Pacific Missile Range. Ted De Boer was a member of the American Radio Relay League from which the Inventors Assistance League was developed in its original concept. 
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