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Subject(s)

• Radio—United States—History [Browse]
• Inventors—United States—History [Browse]
• De Forest, Lee 1873-1961 [Browse]
• Armstrong, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard) 1890-1954 [Browse]
• Sarnoff, David 1891-1971 [Browse]

Series

Cornell scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'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.

Notes

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2021).

Contents

• 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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ISBN

1-5017-5934-5

OCLC

1245956905

Doi

• 10.1515/9781501759338

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