Empire of the Air
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
By Tom LewisBaker's narrative had romance, practical explanation, and heroism. Marconi dealt with the “mysterious, all pervading ... ether,” the name then given to the element that scientists supposed filled space and through which electrical waves ...
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
By Tom LewisEmpire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff—whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age.
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Empire of the Air
By Jenifer Van VleckNow, Jenifer Van Vleck reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' rise to global preeminence in the twentieth century.
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Empire of the Air
By Jenifer Van Vleck... consumer culture as mechanisms of internationalism includes Kristin Hoganson, A Consumers' Imperium: The Glohal Production ofAmerican Domesticity, 1865—1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007); Helen Delpar, The ...
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Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy
By Jenifer Van VleckNow, Jenifer Van Vleck reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States’ rise to global preeminence in the twentieth century.