Empire of the air the men who made radio
A New empire for a new century -- The faith in the future -- The will to succeed -- "What wireless is yet to be" -- Sarnoff and Marconi: inventing a legend -- Wireless goes to war -- Releasing the art: the creation of RCA -- Snapshots from the first age of broadcasting -- Court fight -- Th...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Ithaca New York
Cornell University Press
2021
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| Ausgabe: | [30th Anniversary Paperback Edition] |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A New empire for a new century -- The faith in the future -- The will to succeed -- "What wireless is yet to be" -- Sarnoff and Marconi: inventing a legend -- Wireless goes to war -- Releasing the art: the creation of RCA -- Snapshots from the first age of broadcasting -- Court fight -- The godlike presence -- Armstrong and the FM revolution -- The wizard war -- "Until I'm dead or broke" -- Victories great and small -- The empire in decline. "Biography of 3 Americans, Lee de Forest, Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff, who turned a hobbyists' toy into radio, and launch the modern communications age. The narrative of their creations is punctuated by acts of idealism and imagination, greed and envy, ambition and determination--and genius. It covers 1899 to 1954"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | pages cm |
| ISBN: | 9781501759321 978-1-5017-5932-1 |