Empire of the air : the men who made radio /
"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--a...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press
2021.
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| Edição: | Thirtieth Anniversary Paperback Edition. |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv1bxh5vm |
Sumário:
- 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.