Syntony and spark : the origins of radio / Hugh G.J. Aitken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aitken, Hugh G. J., author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 433

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio--History.

Radio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a readable narrative of the science and technology of early radio combined with sociological and economic analysis of how radio changed our lives. Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

Foreword / Barber, Bernard

Acknowledgments

A Word to the Reader

Contents

Figures

1. PROLOGUE

2. SYNTONY

3. HERTZ

4. LODGE

5. MARCONI

6. EPILOGUE

INDEX

Notes:

Cataloging based on CIP information.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Wiley, c1976.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691611495

0691611491

9780691639499

0691639493

9780691023922

0691023921

9781400857883

1400857880

OCLC:

889251949