Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-354) and index. |
Contents |
The disruptive founder -- Radio dreams -- Mr. Vail is a big man -- The time is not ripe for feature films -- Centralize all radio activities -- The paramount ideal -- The foreign attachment -- The legion of decency -- FM radio -- We now add sight to sound -- The right kind of breakup -- The radicalism of the Internet revolution -- Nixon's cable -- Broken bell -- Esperanto for machines -- Turner does television -- Mass production of the spirit -- The return of AT&T -- A surprising wreck -- Father and son -- The separations principle. |
Subject |
Telecommunication -- History.
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Information technology -- History.
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ISBN |
9780307269935 |
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0307269930 |
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