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by: Tom Lewis See Larger Image Used Price: $8.73 Collectible Price: $39.00 Third Party New Price: $57.94 Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3840973 EAN: 9780060182151 ISBN: 0060182156 Label: Harpercollins Manufacturer: Harpercollins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 421 Publication Date: 1991-09 Publisher: Harpercollins Sales Rank: 117190 Studio: Harpercollins Related Items: Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revolution Tube: The Invention of Television (Sloan Technology Series) The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers see more Editorial Review: 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - 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 ... Read More Rating: - 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 Rating: - Turn your radio on . . . Subtitled "The Men Who Made Radio," this book is concerned with the principal actors developing radio: Marconi, Sarnoff, Armstrong, and De Forrest. Sarnoff ("The General") was the egoist who founded RCA, and Armstrong was the secretive inventor of FM who refused to compromise and lost everything (and committed suicide). The first half of the book is the best; it's all about the inventors and their new inventions and is very interesting. The second half suffers from being mostly about the legal hassling ... Read More Rating: - Americana At It's Best. I didn't just read this book, I've read it three times and will probably read it at least two more times, slowly. It's easily the best recounting of an industrial development that I've ever been through in any medium. The amount of detail about the invention of "radio" is almost overwhelming. The way that the lives of the major figures are professionally interwoven and spiced up with backstabbing, deceit, lying and tragedy is also keeps the reader's eyes glued to the pages. You also begin to realise why ... Read More Rating: - Excellent History of Radio As a radio professional myself, I very much enjoyed reading about the evolution of radio and the marvelous myriad of personalities involved. Since the beginning radio has been filled with colorful and interesting people. It reinforced in me that I picked the right profession to dedicate my life to. I would recommend this book to any professional broadcaster. If we fail to have an appreciation of history, we fail to grasp the big picture. Jeffrey McAndrew WHBL News Anchor and ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Specialty Stores - Books - Engineering History - Subjects - Books - General AAS Telecommunications - Engineering - Professional & Technical - Subjects - Books - Radio & Wireless Engineering - Professional & Technical - Subjects - Books - General AAS Physics - Science - Subjects - Books - Applied