Radio: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies Series) » (1st Edition)

BRIAN REGAL teaches American history and the history of science and technology at the TCI College of Technology in New York--the school originally founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1909. His previous publications include Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man (Ashgate, 2002) and Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates (ABC-CLIO, 2004). His most recent article is "Maxwell Perkins Editor of Eugenics" in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (February, 2005).

Regal (American history, history of science and technology, TCI College of Technology) chronicles the history of radio as technology and as media, from the invention of vacuum tubes and microchips through the visionary mystics and power hungry demagogues who strove to make radio what they thought it should be. He looks at radio as a cultural phenomenon and as a business, and, in a final chapter, explores the impact of current technologies such as the Internet and iPod on radio. B&w photos, a timeline, and a glossary are included. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR