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Author:
Woolley, Scott, author.
Title:
The network : the battle for the airwaves and the birth of the communications age / Scott Woolley.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Eccoan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
viii, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Radio--History.
Radio broadcasting--History.
Armstrong, Edwin H.--(Edwin Howard),--1890-1954.
Sarnoff, David,--1891-1971.
Radio Corporation of America--History.
FM broadcasting--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280).
Contents:
Invisible. Armstrong ; Sarnoff ; Marconi ; Bride -- Invaluable. Sarnoff ; Armstrong ; Sarnoff ; Hoover ; Sarnoff ; Armstrong ; McCormack ; Rogers ; Sarnoff ; Sarnoff ; Johnson -- Infinite. Sarnoff ; Paley ; McGowan.
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.
ISBN:
006224275X
9780062242754
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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