The network
Subtitle: the battle for the airwaves and the birth of the communications age
By: Scott Woolley
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780062242754
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: FM broadcasting; Radio broadcasting; Radio; Radio Corporation of America; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280).
Table of contents: title: Invisible. Armstrong ; Sarnoff ; Marconi ; Bride; title: Invaluable. Sarnoff ; Armstrong ; Sarnoff ; Hoover ; Sarnoff ; Armstrong ; McCormack ; Rogers ; Sarnoff ; Sarnoff ; Johnson; title: Infinite. Sarnoff ; Paley ; McGowan.