Author: Donald Monroe McNicol

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781330484388

Excerpt from Radio's Conquest of Space In this work the author makes no attempt to romanticize the history of radio. Rather, radio is treated as a great new utility created by men of genius who hearkened less to outside inspiration than to voices within themselves: men (and boys) of pioneering spirit who through enthusiasm and diligence studied and experimented, often with meager equipment, until desired results were attained. The work supplies a readable record of radio achievement having somewhat chronological treatment, which will enable radio workers to live over again days and nights of attachment to a labor that held their interest constant. The book, without mathematics, presents a narrative of experimental achievement which boys and young men will find stimulating, while at the same time they acquire a knowledge of how radio started and how it grew. The layman, also, by perusing this work may learn how radio operates, since the knowledge of its construction and working today is built up from its elementary beginning. And, because of the manner in which the various scientists, engineers, and experimenters are identified, the reader may recognize the many consecutive contributions as achievements of real people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.