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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Glavni avtor: Lewis, Tom, 1942- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2021.
Izdaja:Thirtieth Anniversary Paperback Edition.
Online dostop:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv1bxh5vm
Kazalo:
  • 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.