A History of Broadcasting in the United States: Volume 1: A Tower of Babel: To 1933Oxford University Press, 1966 M12 31 - 352 páginas Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs. |
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... transmitter of truth , prestige , and doctrine seems to have brought on or encouraged many other changes . Because papyrus was portable , it helped rulers exercise authority over wide areas . But the power now had to be shared with ...
... transmitter of truth , prestige , and doctrine seems to have brought on or encouraged many other changes . Because papyrus was portable , it helped rulers exercise authority over wide areas . But the power now had to be shared with ...
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... transmitter with a coherer . On May 7 , 1895 , he read a paper reporting on the ringing of a bell by these means . Popov subsequently developed equipment which was used by the Russian navy and to some extent by the French navy . Soon ...
... transmitter with a coherer . On May 7 , 1895 , he read a paper reporting on the ringing of a bell by these means . Popov subsequently developed equipment which was used by the Russian navy and to some extent by the French navy . Soon ...
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... transmitters along the route the reports crackled into the air , producing chaos . Navy observers were on hand ; not a signal was intelligible . Each transmitter completely blotted the others . The fiasco could not have been more total ...
... transmitters along the route the reports crackled into the air , producing chaos . Navy observers were on hand ; not a signal was intelligible . Each transmitter completely blotted the others . The fiasco could not have been more total ...
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... transmitter was installed in a room at the top of the Opera House . The antenna , suspended from two bamboo fishpoles , led to an attic room off the ballet rehearsal room . Groups of listeners , passing earphones around , were assembled ...
... transmitter was installed in a room at the top of the Opera House . The antenna , suspended from two bamboo fishpoles , led to an attic room off the ballet rehearsal room . Groups of listeners , passing earphones around , were assembled ...
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... transmitters were not sharply tuned , and this added to the problem . We might think we were on 200 meters but we were probably just as powerful on 300 meters , possibly on 500 meters . Thus , no matter how selective the Navy equipment ...
... transmitters were not sharply tuned , and this added to the problem . We might think we were on 200 meters but we were probably just as powerful on 300 meters , possibly on 500 meters . Thus , no matter how selective the Navy equipment ...
Contenido
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TOWERS | 64 |
Up a ladder in Newark | 83 |
A law is made 195 The Coolidge hour | 202 |
Birth of the FRC | 211 |
Upward | 231 |
Chronology | 287 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 317 |
INDEX | 329 |
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A History of Broadcasting in the United States: 1. A Tower of Babel: to 1933 Erik Barnouw Vista previa limitada - 1966 |
A History of Broadcasting in the United States: 1. A Tower of Babel: to 1933 Erik Barnouw Sin vista previa disponible - 1966 |
A History of Broadcasting in the United States: 1. A Tower of Babel: to 1933 Erik Barnouw Sin vista previa disponible - 1966 |
Términos y frases comunes
advertising Alexanderson Alexanderson alternator amateur American Marconi Amos Amos n Andy announced apparatus ASCAP AT&T became began Brinkley broadcasting stations Brokenshire brought called Chicago City communications or signals Congress Coolidge court David Sarnoff Department Detroit developed educational equipment Federal Radio Commission Fessenden Forest H. V. Kaltenborn heard Hoover Ibid Judson Kaltenborn KDKA KFKB later licensing authority listeners Marconi companies Meanwhile ment microphone monopoly National National Broadcasting Company navy newspaper operation Owen D patent phonograph President programs Radio Broadcast radio communications Radio Corporation Radio Industry radio stations received regulations Reminiscences Report Secretary of Commerce seemed Senator ship sponsored station license studio talk telegraph telephone television tion transmission transmitter tubes United University Unpublished voice Washington wave length WEAF Western Electric Westinghouse wire wireless WMAQ York Young
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Página 167 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 309 - If any licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station...
Página 78 - a plan of development which would make radio a 'household utility' in the same sense as the piano or phonograph. . . . The idea is to bring music into the house by wireless. . . . "The receiver can be designed in the form of a simple 'Radio Music Box...
Página 309 - ... agent, or otherwise, in the business of transmitting and/or receiving for hire messages by any cable, wire, telegraph, or telephone line or system (a) between any place in any State, Territory, or possession of the United States or in the District of Columbia, and any place in any other State, Territory, or possession of the United States; or (b) between any place in any State...
Página 3 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 9 - I have spoken will easily pierce such mediums, which to them will be transparent. Here, then, is revealed the bewildering possibility of telegraphy without wires, posts, cables, or any of our present costly appliances.
Página 303 - If upon examination of any application for a station license or for the renewal or modification of a station license the Commission shall determine that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by the granting thereof, it shall authorize the issuance, renewal, or modification thereof in accordance with said finding. In the event the Commission...