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Radio

The Life Story of a Technology

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Author: Regal, Brian
Series title:Greenwood Technographies Ser.
ISBN:978-0-313-33167-1
Publication Date:Sep 2005
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $57.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Radio
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.14 x 9.21 x 0.44 Inches
Book Weight:0.94 Pounds



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