Early FM Radio: Incremental Technology in Twentieth-Century America by Gary L. Frost - 2010-02-26

Johns Hopkins. Used - Very Good. 2010. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.

Johns Hopkins. Used - Like New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2010. Originally published at $63.

Johns Hopkins. New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2010. Originally published at $63.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010-04-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.9000 9.0000 6.3000.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 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… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

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UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

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