The network : the battle for the airwaves and the birth of the communications age / Scott Woolley.
Title:
The network : the battle for the airwaves and the birth of the communications age / Scott Woolley.
Author:
Format:
Books
Call Number:
621.3840973 WOO
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
©2016
Publication Date:
2016
ISBN:
9780062242754
006224275X
Summary:
Describes the friendship and partnership between David Sarnoff, the head of RCA, and Edwin Armstrong, the developer of the first amplifier, and how they combined efforts to bring the FM transmitter and modern radio to society and forever change the world.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
viii, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents::
Invisible. Armstrong ; Sarnoff ; Marconi ; Bride -- Invaluable. Sarnoff ; Armstrong ; Sarnoff ; Hoover ; Sarnoff ; Armstrong ; McCormack ; Rogers ; Sarnoff ; Sarnoff ; Johnson -- Infinite. Sarnoff ; Paley ; McGowan.
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