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Woolley, Scott.

The network : the battle for the airwaves and the birth of the communications age / Scott Woolley. - 1st ed.. - New York, NY : Ecco press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. - viii, 280 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280).

Invisible. Armstrong ; Sarnoff ; Marconi ; Bride -- Invaluable. Sarnoff ; Armstrong ; Sarnoff ; Hoover ; Sarnoff ; Armstrong ; McCormack ; Rogers ; Sarnoff ; Sarnoff ; Johnson -- Infinite. Sarnoff ; Paley ; McGowan.

Describes the friendship and partnership between David Sarnoff, the head of RCA, and Edwin Armstrong, the developer of the first amplifier, and how they combined efforts to bring the FM transmitter and modern radio to society and forever change the world--

ISBN: 9780062242761 (pbk.)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Armstrong, Edwin H. 1890-1954.
Sarnoff, David, 1891-1971.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Radio Corporation of America--History.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Radio--History.--United States
Radio broadcasting--History.--United States
FM broadcasting--History.--United States

LC Class. No.: TK6548.U6 / W66 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 621.3840973 384.5409