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200 10$aEmpire of the air $ethe men who made radio /$fTom Lewis$b[electronic resource]
205   $a[30th Anniversary Paperback Edition].
210  1$aIthaca :$cThree Hills,$d2021.
215   $a1 online resource (xxi, 421 pages) $cillustrations
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300   $aThis edition also issued in print: 2021.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aA 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.
330 8 $a'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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