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Early FM Radio
Gary L. Frost
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Description for Early FM Radio
Historians of technology, communication, and media will welcome this important reexamination of the canonic story of early FM radio. Num Pages: 208 pages, 23, 23 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; TBX; TJKR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
The commonly accepted history of FM radio is one of the twentieth century's iconic sagas of invention, heroism, and tragedy. Edwin Howard Armstrong created a system of wideband frequency-modulation radio in 1933. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), convinced that Armstrong's system threatened its AM empire, failed to develop the new technology and refused to pay Armstrong royalties. Armstrong sued the company at great personal cost. He died despondent, exhausted, and broke. But this account, according to Gary L. Frost, ignores the contributions of scores of other individuals who were involved in the decades-long struggle to realize the potential of ... Read more
The commonly accepted history of FM radio is one of the twentieth century's iconic sagas of invention, heroism, and tragedy. Edwin Howard Armstrong created a system of wideband frequency-modulation radio in 1933. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), convinced that Armstrong's system threatened its AM empire, failed to develop the new technology and refused to pay Armstrong royalties. Armstrong sued the company at great personal cost. He died despondent, exhausted, and broke. But this account, according to Gary L. Frost, ignores the contributions of scores of other individuals who were involved in the decades-long struggle to realize the potential of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894404
SKU
V9780801894404
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About Gary L. Frost
Gary L. Frost is an engineer and a freelance historian.
Reviews for Early FM Radio
Early FM Radio is the first serious biography to benefit from the newer documents... a valuable addition to the history of electronics, not least because it relieves Armstrong and Sarnoff of their mythological status as angel and devil and considers them instead as differently gifted practitioners.
Michael Riezenman IEEE Spectrum Magazine 2010 Frost's unique-I am tempted to write groundbreaking-book ... Read more
Michael Riezenman IEEE Spectrum Magazine 2010 Frost's unique-I am tempted to write groundbreaking-book ... Read more