Empire of the air : the men who made radio / / Tom Lewis [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Lewis Tom <1942->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cornell scholarship online.