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Empire of the air : : the men who made radio
| Title | Empire of the air : : the men who made radio |
| Names | Lewis, Tom. |
| Book Number | BR009073 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Braille |
| Download Link | Volume 1. |
| Volume 2. | |
| Volume 3. | |
| Volume 4. | |
| Volume 5. | |
| Annotation | Portrait of three American pioneers of radio--Lee de Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, creator of transmitter and amplification devices and the FM system; and David Sarnoff, who made RCA into a corporate giant. Chronicles the struggles among these individuals, along with the development of radio from a primitive wireless communication system to its golden age in the 1930s and 1940s. |
| Local Subject | Adult Non-Fiction - AN |
| Adult Book - AD | |
| Long Book - LO | |
| History, United States - HUS | |
| History - HST | |
| Science - Communication - COM | |
| Sciences - SCI | |
| Science - Engineering - ENG | |
| Business - BUS | |
| Technology & Computers - TEC | |
| Audience Notes | A |
| LC Subject | Radio - United States - History |
| Radio - United States - Biography |
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| Call Number | 621.3840973 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 1991 |
| Publication Info | 1991 |
| Original Publication | Transcription of: 1st ed. New York, NY : Edward Burlingame Books, c1991. |