Empire of the Air : : The Men Who Made Radio / / Tom Lewis.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Paperback Edition
- Prologue: A New Empire for a New Century
- 1. The Faith in the Future
- 2. The Will to Succeed
- 3. “What Wireless Is Yet to Be”
- 4. Sarnoff and Marconi: Inventing a Legend
- 5. Wireless Goes to War
- 6. Releasing the Art: The Creation of RCA
- 7. Snapshots from the First Age of Broadcasting
- 8. Court Fight
- 9. The Godlike Presence
- 10. Armstrong and the FM Revolution
- 11. The Wizard War
- 12. “Until I’m Dead or Broke”
- 13. Victories Great and Small
- Epilogue: The Empire in Decline
- Sources and Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index