Radio
Subtitle: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780313331671
Subjects: Popular culture; Radio technology; Technology & Engineering; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Science/Mathematics; History; Radio; Radio - History & Criticism; Technology / General
Description: "This book chronicles the history of radio as technology and as media. Radio grew from a clumsy, temperamental form of wireless telegraph to a system that is so ubiquitous and easy to use that it has disappeared to users as a technology and become part of the fabric of human existence. This biography charts the growth of the technical end of radio, starting with the history of electricity, and moving through the invention of vacuum tubes, the heterodyne, FM, transistors, and microchips. But the history of radio is not just wires and electricity - it's the story of strange characters, deep thinkers, visionary mystics, hyperactive minds, ambitious souls, power hungry demagogues, and utopian humanists; all of whom strove to make radio into what they thought it should be."--Jacket.