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Radio - The Life Story of a Technology (Hardcover)
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Radio - The Life Story of a Technology (Hardcover)
Series: Greenwood Technographies
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This book chronicles the history of radio as technology and as
media. Radio grew from a clumsy, temperamental form of wireless
telegraph to a system that is so ubiquitous and easy to use that it
has disappeared to users as a technology and became part of the
fabric of human existence. This biography charts the growth of the
technical end of radio, starting with the history of electricity,
and moving through the invention of vacuum tubes, the heterodyne,
FM, transistors, and microchips. But the history of radio is not
just wires and electricity--it's the story of strange characters,
deep thinkers, visionary mystics, hyperactive minds, ambitious
souls, power hungry demagogues, and utopian humanists; all of whom
strove to make radio into what they thought it should be. In
addition, Radio: The Life Story of a Technology looks at the
technology as a cultural phenomenon, including the corporate
aspects and history of the business of radio. In the middle of the
20th century people saw that radio could be used as an agent of
social change, both good and bad. The transition of radio from
private corporate device to public news provider to entertainment
box back to political tool is at the heart of this work.
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