Empire of the Air : The Men Who Made Radio /

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"Biography of 3 Americans, Lee de Forest, Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff, who turned a hobbyists' toy into radio, and launch the modern communications age. The narrative of their creations is punctuated by acts of idealism and imagination, greed and envy, ambition and determination--a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lewis, Tom, 1942- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Édition:[30th Anniversary Paperback Edition].
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Sarnoff, David, > 1891-1971.
De Forest, Lee, > 1873-1961.
Armstrong, Edwin H. > (Edwin Howard), > 1890-1954.
Radio.
Radio > United States > Biography.
Radio > United States > History.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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