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The Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 2010-02-26. Hardcover. Used:Good. 2010. The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 0801894409 9780801894404 [US]

Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 2010. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendix, glossary, index, figures, and illustrations. 208 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The commonly accepted history of FM radio is one of the twentieth century's iconic sagas of invention, heroism, and tragedy. Edwin Howard Armstrong created a system of wideband frequency-modulation radio in 1933. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), convinced that Armstrong's system threatened its AM empire, failed to develop the new technology and refused to pay Armstrong royalties. Armstrong sued the company at great personal cost. He died despondent, exhausted, and broke. But this account, according to Gary L. Frost, ignores the contributions of scores of other individuals who were involved in the decades-long struggle to realize the potential of FM radio. The first scholar to fully examine recently uncovered evidence from the Armstrong v. RCA lawsuit, Frost offers a thorough revision of the FM story. Frost's balanced, contextualized approach provides a much-needed corrective to previous accounts. Navigating deftly through the details of a complicated story, he examines the motivations and interactions of the three communities most intimately involved in the development of the technology--Progressive-era amateur radio operators, RCA and Westinghouse engineers, and early FM broadcasters. In the ...

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Johns Hopkins University Press 2010 Hard cover Like New Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2010. Originally published at $63.

ISBN10: 0801894409, ISBN13: 9780801894404, [publisher: Johns Hopkins.] Hardcover Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2010. Originally published at $63.
[Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]

ISBN10: 0801894409, ISBN13: 9780801894404, [publisher: Johns Hopkins.] Hardcover Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2010. Originally published at $63.
[Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]

Johns Hopkins. Used - Very Good. 2010. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good. Johns Hopkins ISBN 0801894409 9780801894404 [US]