by Irving Fang and Irving
ISBN: 1-933-01177-7It was an exciting time to be a young inventor, especially if you were rich. If you lived on an estate, and if you had the full support of your parents, and if you could do your studying and inventing at home, could it get any better? Yes it could, if your neighbor was a well-known professor of physics and he offered to guide you!
So begins Radio, the eighth in the 11-volume series, The Story of Communication.
Radio was not invented as a form of entertainment. It was a way for ships to contact each other and people on shore, but battleship commanders were not too happy with this new invention. Can you think why?
Not all the discoveries along the way were intended. Some were just happy accidents. Radio takes us from dots-and-dashes into the world of broadcasting. During the Depression and World War II years, listeners looked at their radios just as we now look at television sets. Why? Because the radio was talking to them.
Today, a jogger may withdraw from the world she can hear around her by tuning into country music on a Walkman. A driver may be listening to political opinions bounced off a satellite. It’s all part of The Story of Communication.
