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When Radio Was the Cats Whiskers.

The power of radio was crucial to opening up Australia to the rest of the world. Its potential for communication was recognised very early in this country, both as medium and message, and could not have been more loved and admired than by Bernard Harte, a small boy growing up in Brisbane in the 1920...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harte, Bernard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : Rosenberg Pub., 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword; Prologue; Episode 1: It wasn't wireless but it was still the cat's whiskers; Episode 3: The government gets the message; Episode 4: A dreadful story; Episode 5: The Tin Lizzie and the cowbell; Episode 6: 'As you see, gentlemen, there are no wires!'; Episode 7: It's as clear as a bell ... ; Episode 8: The turbulent Twenties ... and the flirty Thirties; Episode 9: The lean years ... ; Episode 10: Spring ... and a young man's fancy lightly turns to ... Myrtle; Episode 11: Growing pains; Episode 12: The country scene ... 'It's just the wife chopping wood' 
505 8 |a Episode 13: War and peace and the Golden YearsEpisode 14: 1923 revisited; Episode 15: Amateurs, pirates and piddlers; Episode 16: The day Mary had a little lamb; Episode 17: When a crystal set was the cat's whiskers; Episode 18: 'Don't bump the mike!'; Episode 19: The long and short of Drake-Richmond; Episode 20: Pedal wireless and the mission of John Flynn; Episode 21: Buccaneer of the Airwaves; Episode 22: 'Good morning ... is the billy boiling?'; Episode 23: Music ... the universal language; Episode 24: The brass pounders; Episode 25: The Jesus Box; Episode 26: Tales tall and true; Epilogue. 
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520 |a The power of radio was crucial to opening up Australia to the rest of the world. Its potential for communication was recognised very early in this country, both as medium and message, and could not have been more loved and admired than by Bernard Harte, a small boy growing up in Brisbane in the 1920s, who devoted his life to this exciting form of communication. When Radio was the Cat's Whiskers is more than just a history of radio in Australia, it is about an Australian radio pioneer--technician, broadcaster and master of making-do. Harte has documented the history of radio as he lived it, rese. 
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