Electronic Media, 3rd Edition

From Marconi to Mobile Listening

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I.   See It Then

A. Early Inventors and Inventions

1. Electrical Telegraphy

2. Electrical Telephony

3. Point-to-Point Electrical Communication

B. Wireless Transmission

1. James Clerk Maxwell

2. Heinrich Hertz

3. Guglielmo Marconi

4. Reginald Fessenden

5. Lee de Forest

C. The Basis for Regulatory Power Over Broadcasting

1. A Tragic Lesson

D. Radio Becomes a Mass Medium

1. Broadcasting

2. World War I

3. The Radio Corporation of America

4. The 1920s

E. The Rise of Commercial Radio

1. WEAF

2. Station Interconnection or Chain Broadcasting

3. The Copyright Act of 1907

4. The Network System

5. The Radio Act of 1927

6. The Communications Act of 1934

7. A New Network

8. Press/Radio War

F. World War II

1. The ...