Empire of the Air
Tom Lewis · Cornell University Press eBooks · 2021
This book 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. The book weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak. The book is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between inventor and corporation.