San Jose Mercury Herald Mike Adams, Professor of Radio and Television at San Jose State University, has been researching Herrold for several years. Based on the pioneering 1958 research by retired San Jose State professor Gordon Greb, Adams was able to read all the collected papers, patents, drawings, and correspondence of Herrold, and he has located and restored old film and put onto videotape several hundred photographs that illustrate the Herrold story. Adams has also interviewed historians, eyewitnesses, and surviving Herrold family members and friends in an effort to tell the complete Herrold story. In an effort to place thedocumentary material in the context of the wireless hobby, dramatic re-creation is used to show the excitement surrounding the discovery of a new technology, and its influence on the young men who were Herrold's students, circa 1912. This one-hour documentary was produced, written and directed by Adams in association with San Jose PBS station KTEH and distributed it to PBS stations nationwide.
All profits go to support the preservation of electronics history.
The production script can be found on producer Mike Adam's web site . Copyright 1994 California Historical Radio Society, all rights reserved.