Books Details
Author : Scott Woolley Pages : 280 pages Publisher : Ecco
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 006224275X ISBN-13 : 9780062242754
Books Descriptions
The astonishing story of America?s airwaves, the two
friends?one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor?who made
them available to us, and the government which figured out how
to put a price on airThis is the origin story of the
airwaves?the foundational technology of the communications
age?as told through the forty-year friendship of an
entrepreneurial industrialist and a brilliant inventor.David
Sarnoff, the head of RCA and equal parts Steve Jobs, Jack
Welch, and William Randolph Hearst, was the greatest supporter
of his friend Edwin Armstrong, developer of the first
amplifier, the modern radio transmitter, and FM radio. Sarnoff
was convinced that Armstrong?s inventions had the power to
change the way societies communicated with each other forever.
He would become a visionary captain of the media industry, even
predicting the advent of the Internet. In the mid-1930s,
however, when Armstrong suspected Sarnoff of orchestrating a
cadre of government officials to seize control of
