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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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Pubblicazione: | Ithaca : , : Three Hills, , 2021 |
Edizione: | [30th Anniversary Paperback Edition]. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxi, 421 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 621.38092 |
Soggetto topico: | Radio - United States - History |
Inventors - United States - History | |
Note generali: | This edition also issued in print: 2021. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | '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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Empire of the air ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-5017-5934-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910554206603321 |
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