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UNINA9910554206603321 |
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Autore |
Lewis Tom <1942-> |
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Titolo |
Empire of the air : the men who made radio / / Tom Lewis [[electronic resource]] |
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Ithaca : , : Three Hills, , 2021 |
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Edizione |
[[30th Anniversary Paperback Edition].] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 421 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Cornell scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Radio - United States - History |
Inventors - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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This edition also issued in print: 2021. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Empire of the Air' tells the story of three American visionaries - Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff - whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak. |
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