From the Publisher
Disclaimer. IN THIS BOOK SET, the authors have endeavored to explain the technical terms of Telecommunications, which include, electronics, radio, television, satellites, antennas, video, and multi-media computer definitions. They have also attempted to redefine and ascertain the time period when the joining of electromagnetic wave to mechanical devices, such as the telephone, telegraph and motion picture film took place.
Then after it did take place, when did the union of Wireless telephony and telegraphy to Radio Broadcasting occur; and the reasons why telegraphy was eliminated from the definition of broadcasting. Both the authors and publishers believe that the examples and scientific data found within the book set are accurate, thus such reliance, will be most useful in helping the student of media science understand radio history.
However, the examples, data, and other information are intended solely as teaching aids and should not be used in any particular application without independent testing, experiments and verification by the person making the application. Independent testing, experimentation and verification are especially important in any application in which incorrect functioning could result in personal injury or damage to property.
For these reasons, the Authors and publishers make no warranties, express or implied, that the examples, data, or other information in these volumes are free of error, that they are consistent with industry standards, or that they will meet the requirements for any particular application.
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From the Author
If That Wistful, Clear-eyed melancholy were its primary mood, "The SMART-DAAF Boys" might have been a little masterpiece. It isn't--until we end the story with the strange deaths attributed to all the SMART-DAAF Boys. Chris Harris, Mark Sova, and myself get the externals of Stubblefield's vision of his world of ether and sky waves, AM Radio, broadcasting, dusty laboratories, and roads that vanish into a lonely shack; jail for Collins in 1913, that ended 79 years later, upon our discovering the clever soul of the Kentuckian.
And the internals: the strifes, hurts, dreams and little everyday epiphanies go to Josie Cory and my son A.K. Stubblefield. If non-fictional books avoid or disguise the world, shining it up beyond recognition, "The SMART-DAAF Boys" - takes the opposite approach, one better. It jumps right into life, faces it with careless affection, clarity and invention. Troy Cory (Keith) Stubblefield, the grandson of Nathan B. Stubblefield, 1993
