The technical development of wireless communications during and after World War I that led to the formation of RCA and the ensuing patent fights are extensively documented, again with the aid of Archer's access to the RCA archives, and reprints of many important documents in radio history are included. Archer deals with two different worlds in the last half of the book: the development of radio stations and programming as seen by the audience, and the straggle behind the scenes for industrial power.
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The technical development of wireless communications during and after World War I that led to the formation of RCA and the ensuing patent fights are extensively documented, again with the aid of Archer's access to the RCA archives, and reprints of many important documents in radio history are included. Archer deals with two different worlds in the last half of the book: the development of radio stations and programming as seen by the audience, and the straggle behind the scenes for industrial power.
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Very Good. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. The book's fore edge has some staining as does the front and rear inside covers. Very good condition.; B&W Photographs; 8vo.; vi, 421 pages.
Gleason Archer, along with many other writers, such as Barnouw, early IRE publications, early RCA, GE and Westinghouse Reviews, Hugh Aiken, Lodge and others, help to explain the early setting of the broadcasting story. Several modern historians have criticized Archer for being the writer for corporations, and because he was, then all of this work of his is tainted. Well, that is just revisionist junk. Admidingly, Archer had his sources deep in the corporate files of THE RCA, it is his recitation of sections of historial agreements, papers and other things that make him such a valuable contribution to the broadcasting scholar. His bibliography alone is worth the price of the book. Original sources are original sources, no matter how one might view them. Excellent material and again it is seminal material, as Archer was a living recorder of those early decades in broadcast history.
