A History of Broadcasting in the United States: Volume 1: A Tower of Babel: To 1933Oxford University Press, 31 de des. 1966 - 352 pàgines Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs. |
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... report the America's Cup Race in the United States in October 1899. Marconi and his associates saw the invitation as a timely opportunity for overtures to the American navy . During 1899 Marconi equipment was being installed on three ...
... report the America's Cup Race in the United States in October 1899. Marconi and his associates saw the invitation as a timely opportunity for overtures to the American navy . During 1899 Marconi equipment was being installed on three ...
Pàgina 14
... reporting on the ringing of a bell by these means . Popov subsequently developed equipment which was used by the Russian navy and to some extent by the French navy . Soon other French experimenters were demonstrating equipment for the ...
... reporting on the ringing of a bell by these means . Popov subsequently developed equipment which was used by the Russian navy and to some extent by the French navy . Soon other French experimenters were demonstrating equipment for the ...
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... reports had a restrained tone befitting seasoned officials . It was recommended that the navy give the invention a ... report , " may be quite severe and even dangerous to a person with a weak heart . " How- ever , " no fatal accidents ...
... reports had a restrained tone befitting seasoned officials . It was recommended that the navy give the invention a ... report , " may be quite severe and even dangerous to a person with a weak heart . " How- ever , " no fatal accidents ...
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... reporting the America's Cup races by wireless . He later changed his mind.2 There was the mysterious figure of Nathan B. Stubblefield , whose gravestone in Murray , Ky . , names him the Father of Radio Broadcasting . He is said to have ...
... reporting the America's Cup races by wireless . He later changed his mind.2 There was the mysterious figure of Nathan B. Stubblefield , whose gravestone in Murray , Ky . , names him the Father of Radio Broadcasting . He is said to have ...
Pàgina 23
... report it by wireless . " Emboldened . . . I forced the hands of my confreres . " 4 After the trip to New York by day coach , De Forest was taken aback to learn that the New York Herald and the Associ- ated Press had already contracted ...
... report it by wireless . " Emboldened . . . I forced the hands of my confreres . " 4 After the trip to New York by day coach , De Forest was taken aback to learn that the New York Herald and the Associ- ated Press had already contracted ...
Continguts
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TOWERS | 64 |
Up a ladder in Newark | 83 |
A law is made 195 The Coolidge hour | 202 |
Birth of the FRC | 211 |
Upward | 231 |
Chronology | 287 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 317 |
INDEX | 329 |
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A History of Broadcasting in the United States: 1. A Tower of Babel: to 1933 Erik Barnouw Previsualització limitada - 1966 |
A History of Broadcasting in the United States: 1. A Tower of Babel: to 1933 Erik Barnouw Previsualització no disponible - 1966 |
A History of Broadcasting in the United States: 1. A Tower of Babel: to 1933 Erik Barnouw Previsualització no disponible - 1966 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 167 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pàgina 309 - If any licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station...
Pàgina 78 - a plan of development which would make radio a 'household utility' in the same sense as the piano or phonograph. . . . The idea is to bring music into the house by wireless. . . . "The receiver can be designed in the form of a simple 'Radio Music Box...
Pàgina 309 - ... agent, or otherwise, in the business of transmitting and/or receiving for hire messages by any cable, wire, telegraph, or telephone line or system (a) between any place in any State, Territory, or possession of the United States or in the District of Columbia, and any place in any other State, Territory, or possession of the United States; or (b) between any place in any State...
Pàgina 3 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Pàgina 9 - I have spoken will easily pierce such mediums, which to them will be transparent. Here, then, is revealed the bewildering possibility of telegraphy without wires, posts, cables, or any of our present costly appliances.
Pàgina 303 - If upon examination of any application for a station license or for the renewal or modification of a station license the Commission shall determine that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by the granting thereof, it shall authorize the issuance, renewal, or modification thereof in accordance with said finding. In the event the Commission...
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