02527nam 2200529 450 991055420660332120220923160407.01-5017-5934-510.1515/9781501759338(CKB)4100000012000270(OCoLC)1245956905(MdBmJHUP)muse96839(MiAaPQ)EBC6423760(Au-PeEL)EBL6423760(StDuBDS)EDZ0002656285(DE-B1597)576253(DE-B1597)9781501759338(EXLCZ)99410000001200027020210810d2021 fy| 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEmpire of the air the men who made radio /Tom Lewis[electronic resource][30th Anniversary Paperback Edition].Ithaca :Three Hills,2021.1 online resource (xxi, 421 pages) illustrationsCornell scholarship onlineThis edition also issued in print: 2021.1-5017-5933-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.'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.Cornell scholarship online.RadioUnited StatesHistoryInventorsUnited StatesHistoryRadioHistory.InventorsHistory.621.38092Lewis Tom1942-1166034StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910554206603321Empire of the air2817863UNINA