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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

by: Tom Lewis

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3840973
EAN: 9780060182151
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0060182156
Label: Harpercollins
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 421
Publication Date: 1991-09
Publisher: Harpercollins
Studio: Harpercollins

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Product Description:
Acclaimed by hobbyists as the best book on radio ever written, Empire of the Air traces the lives of the three visionaries behind the modern communications age--Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff--in this fascinating, inspiring, and at times tragic tale. 32 pages of photos.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Well researched volume
While there are many sources of accurate history about the three men that form the core of this book, the Author did a great job tying the interlocking lives of these titans together. An excellent and well detailed corollary to the associated Ken Burns Film.

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- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Anyone who is interested in the world of radio where it started and where it has come to, may be interested in knowing about this book. I found it very interesting and enlightening. I read this book years ago and bought a paperback copy to be sent to a talk show person on WLBR radio 1270 KHz in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. As one should be aware of where we came from and the background of a profession, if one profess to know how one fits into the current ... Read More

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- Very Narrow Focus, Technically Weak
The title of this book is highly misleading. It should be called "Everything You Don't Need To Know About Three Of The Men Who Made Radio In The United States." Apparently the author got hold of some voluminous archives about Lee de Forest and Edwin Armstrong, and felt compelled to use all this material without very much reference to the larger picture of the world development of the radio art. And when the author neglects the big picture, the true value of Armstrong and de Forest is trivialized.
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- The story of broadcast radio from RCAs point of view
"Empire of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio," by Tom Lewis, HarperCollins, New York, 1991. This 421 page paperback is the book that accompanied the 1990s PBS series, a three-hour presentation of the story of radio. It emphasized the role of three individuals: Lee DeForest, Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Lee DeForest invented the audion tube by inserting a grid between the plate and the filament in a vacuum tube. Howard Armstrong perfected the invention with a series of circuits that made the ... Read More

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- An Excellent Book with a Major Flaw
I greatly enjoyed reading this book, and viewing the documentary that was based on it. Tom Lewis crafted an interesting, well-written story, and did his research. His facts are almost all correct, and Empire of the Air does a service in reviving interest in the history of the single most-important technological leap of the past century. (It is even more important than the Internet; the Internet has precedents--computers, telephones, TV, FAX, etc.--but radio had no precedent. It was the very first ... Read More

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