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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

By Tom Lewis

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781501759338
DOI
10.1515/9781501759338
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4966141 bytes)
Pages
448\445
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 19:50:58

Description

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. Empire of the Air is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between inventor and corporation.

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