The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age Woolley Scott
The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age Woolley Scott The astonishing story of America's airwaves, the two friends--one a media mogul, the other a famous…
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The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age Woolley Scott
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 air.This 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. He would become a visionary captain of the media industry, even predicting the advent of the Internet.In Sarnoff was convinced that Armstrong's inventions had the power to change the way societies communicated with each other forever.