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  • Empire of the Air

  • The Men Who Made Radio
  • By: Tom Lewis
  • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
  • Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
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By: Tom Lewis
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Summary

Empire of the Air 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. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the 20th century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak.

Empire of the Air 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.
©1991 Thomas S. W. Lewis; Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Paperback Edition copyright 2021 by Thomas S. W. Lewis (P)2021 Tantor
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Had to stop listening

The story is bit stretched out a lot of the content isn’t really relevant in my opinion. The main thing that I found annoying was the narrator’s voice its monotone and for some reason or another they keep stringing out the last word of each sentence which drove me crazy after a few minutes.

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