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They called Marconi crazy,
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This review is from: Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) (Paperback)
An interesting history of the development of broadcasting in America, which curiously started in Italy by the Irish-Italian Gugliemo Marconi. The problem Marconi was trying to solve was the creation of a wireless telegraph and through his and the efforts of others, radio broadcasting was invented, albeit as a by-product. This is the story of the technical breakthroughs that had to be developed, the intense competition between Marconi, Fessenden, Lee De Forest, the patent disputes, the shady claims made to raise capital, and the early use of marketing and manipulating the press. As a microwave engineer, I found this history fascinating, but I think non-technical readers will enjoy it also.
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Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by Susan J. Douglas (Paperback - February 1, 1989)
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