LEADER 02603nam 2200337z- 450 001 9910583582503321 005 20220715 010 $a1-4214-2822-9 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023689 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88773 035 $a(oapen)doab88773 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023689 100 $a20202207d2010 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEarly FM Radio$eIncremental Technology in Twentieth-Century America 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 330 $aThe commonly accepted history of FM radio is one of the twentieth century's iconic sagas of invention, heroism, and tragedy. Edwin Howard Armstrong created a system of wideband frequency-modulation radio in 1933. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), convinced that Armstrong's system threatened its AM empire, failed to develop the new technology and refused to pay Armstrong royalties. Armstrong sued the company at great personal cost. He died despondent, exhausted, and broke. But this account, according to Gary L. Frost, ignores the contributions of scores of other individuals who were involved in the decades-long struggle to realize the potential of FM radio. The first scholar to fully examine recently uncovered evidence from the Armstrong v. RCA lawsuit, Frost offers a thorough revision of the FM story. Frost's balanced, contextualized approach provides a much-needed corrective to previous accounts. Navigating deftly through the details of a complicated story, he examines the motivations and interactions of the three communities most intimately involved in the development of the technology-Progressive-era amateur radio operators, RCA and Westinghouse engineers, and early FM broadcasters. In the process, Frost demonstrates the tension between competition and collaboration that goes hand in hand with the emergence and refinement of new technologies. Frost's study reconsiders both the social construction of FM radio and the process of technological evolution. Historians of technology, communication, and media will welcome this important reexamination of the canonic story of early FM radio. 517 $aEarly FM Radio 606 $aRadio technology$2bicssc 610 $aRadio technology 615 7$aRadio technology 700 $aFrost$b Gary L$4auth$01323019 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583582503321 996 $aEarly FM Radio$93035329 997 $aUNINA