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The astonishing story of America's airwaves, the two friends - one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor - who made them available to us, and the government that figured out how to put a price on air.
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In the late 1930s, legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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Fantastic book, weak technical execution
- De Paul en 10-13-18
De: Jennet Conant
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The Electric War
- Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World
- De: Mike Winchell
- Narrado por: Greg Tremblay
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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In the mid- to late-19th century, a burgeoning science called electricity promised to shine new light on a rousing nation. Inventive and ambitious minds were hard at work. Soon that spark was fanned, and a war was under way to be the first to light - and run - the world with electricity. Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of direct current (DC), engaged in a brutal battle with Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, the inventors of alternating current (AC). There would be no ties in this race - only a winner and a loser - and the prize was a nationwide monopoly in electric current.
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Very well written!
- De Amanda McCoy en 07-17-19
De: Mike Winchell
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Birdmen
- The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
- De: Lawrence Goldstone
- Narrado por: Jonathan Fried
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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Wilbur and Orville Wright are two of the greatest innovators in history, and together they solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the most talented machinist of his day; he first became the fastest man alive when he perfected the motorcycle, then turned his eyes toward the skies to become the fastest man aloft. But between the Wrights and Curtiss bloomed a poisonous rivalry and a patent war so powerful that it shaped aviation in its early years and drove one of the three men to his grave.
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Exceptional
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No Better Time
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- De: Molly Knight Raskin
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
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No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded with his mentor.
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An Overlooked Hero of 9-11
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Admiral Hyman Rickover
- Engineer of Power (The Jewish Lives Series)
- De: Marc Wortman
- Narrado por: Paul Bellantoni
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899-1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of the world’s first practical nuclear power reactor. In this exciting biography, historian Marc Wortman explores the constant conflict Rickover faced and provoked, tracing how he revolutionized the navy and Cold War strategy.
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Rickover - No Compromises
- De Brustar en 07-18-22
De: Marc Wortman
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Neither Snow nor Rain
- A History of the United States Postal Service
- De: Devin Leonard
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Few institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Postal Service, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history. The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, 40 percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese and easily outpacing the Germans and British. And the USPS has a storied history.
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Woa!, the post office's history is America
- De anon en 12-06-16
De: Devin Leonard
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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
- Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- De: Thomas Kessner
- Narrado por: Bob McGraw
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In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in America's age of commercial aviation.
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Flawed but Worthwhile
- De Ray Daniels en 11-11-22
De: Thomas Kessner
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- De: Matthew Brzezinski
- Narrado por: Charles Stransky
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On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world.
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awesome
- De Thomas en 06-25-09
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Dreamers and Deceivers
- True and Untold Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
- De: Glenn Beck
- Narrado por: Jeremy Lowell
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The new nonfiction from number-one best-selling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.
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Astounding History stories gather life
- De Gil en 11-13-14
De: Glenn Beck
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Losing the Signal
- The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
- De: Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
- Narrado por: William Hughes
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Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway.
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Fascinating
- De Gerardo A Dada en 09-05-15
De: Jacquie McNish, y otros
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Sellout
- How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home
- De: Victoria Bruce
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
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American technological prowess used to be unrivaled. But because of globalization, and with the blessing of the US government, once proprietary materials, components, and technologies are increasingly commercialized outside the United States. Nowhere is this more dangerous than in China's monopoly of rare earth elements - materials that are essential for nearly all modern consumer goods, gadgets, and weapons systems.
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Uncovering unsung heroes of modern America
- De Ben DeNardo en 08-24-17
De: Victoria Bruce
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Meet You in Hell
- Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting after two decades of separation. Frick's reply: "Tell him that I'll meet him in hell."
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an extended journalistic tour
- De D. Littman en 06-08-05
De: Les Standiford
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Rocket Billionaires
- Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
- De: Tim Fernholz
- Narrado por: Erin Moon
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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For the larger-than-life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity - or the key to humanity's salvation. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take center stage in this fast-paced narrative as they attempt to disrupt the space economy, feed their own egos, and maybe even save the world.
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Interesting book; hard to listen to
- De K. Thai en 04-12-18
De: Tim Fernholz
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Freedom's Forge
- How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
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New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of “Liberty ships” - vessels that came to symbolize America’s great wartime output.
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Enlightening. Amazing, Great Narration
- De G. Sanders en 08-26-12
De: Arthur Herman
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- De Henri en 12-21-18
De: Jonathan Shay MD
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- BrittleB
- 10-26-16
great book
well written and reseached. this book is essential reading for anyone in the ICT space.
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- Fred V.
- 11-03-22
Network Futures
Solid informative book. It's history that has impact both now and in the years to come. Technology is not sterile and soulless; it is the expression of human aspiration and genius. It would have been nice to cover how FM and AM played their role in the advent and progress of television. However this doesn't limit the quality of the book and its powerful account of how we wind up with the communications capabilities and services we now take for granted. Bravo-Zulu.
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- Jean
- 06-01-16
The Classic Struggle
This book is about the development of communication technology. Woolley follows the development from the telegraph, telephone, radio, radar, television to the internet. The author used the history of two men and a company to tell the story. One man is David Sarnoff (1891-1971), the media mogul responsible for “Radio Corporation of American” (RCA). The other man is Edwin Armstrong (1890-1954) a prolific inventor. Among his many inventions was the amplifier to enable telegraph signal reception from greater distances and FM radio. This book opens with the dramatic scene of Armstrong’s suicide. Armstrong claimed that Sarnoff betrayed him.
Both these men were visionaries. Sarnoff led the charge on radio broadcasting, color television and articulating a vision of the internet. Both men were obstructed by corporate interest and government agencies that stifled innovation. Sarnoff was excellent at encouraging scientist and determining what technology will change mankind but terrible at business management particularly of NBC which RCA owned. He foresaw the popularity of color TV but had no interest in the programs on the TV.
The book is well written and by focusing on these two men Woolley avoided getting bogged down in excessive detail on technology. The plot driven narrative illuminates the genesis of innovation and is highly readable. Woolley reveals the classic struggle of the visionaries against the established interest. Stephen Hoye does a good job narrating the book.
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