Volume 1: American Wireless to 1920 Introduction: 'American Radio's Golden Age' Radio Reading: Sources on American Radio to 1945 Introduction to Volume 1: 'Innovating the Technology' 1. Wireless Telegraphy by Richard Kerr (New York: Scribner's, 1898) 2. 'Inventors and Inventions', by Charles Henry Sewall, Wireless Telegraphy: Its Origins, Development, Inventions, and Apparatus (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1903), pp. 91-123 3. The Development of Wireless Telegraphy (New York: American DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co., 1904) 4. 'Wireless Telephony', by A. Frederick Collins, Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice (New York: McGraw, 1905), pp. 285-97 5. 'The Audion: A New Receiver for Wireless Telegraphy', by Lee de Forest, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (vol. 25, 1906), pp. 719-47 6. 'Wireless Telephony', by Reginald A. Fessenden, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (vol. 27, 1908), pp. 1283-358 7. 'Some Recent Developments in the Audion Receiver', by Edwin H. Armstrong, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers (vol. 3, 1915), pp. 215-47 8. 'United States Radio Development', by Robert H. Marriott, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers (vol. 5, May 1917), pp. 179-97 Volume 2: Radio's Changing Technology, 1920-45 Introduction: 'Improving Radio' A. Specific Innovations 1. The Story of the First Trans-Atlantic Short Wave Message [1921], Proceedings of the Radio Club of America (1BCG Commemorative Issue, October 1950), pp. 1-65 2. 'Short Waves: Historical Review', by Charles R. Leutz and Robert B. Gable, Short Waves (Altoona, PA: C. R. Leutz Inc., 1934), pp. 11-32 3. 'The Story of the Super-Heterodyne', by Edwin H. Armstrong, Radio Broadcast (July 1924), pp. 198-207 4. 'A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation', by Edwin Howard Armstrong, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers (vol. 24, May 1936), pp. 689-740 5. 'Evolution of Frequency Modulation', by Edwin Howard Armstrong, Electrical Engineering (Dec. 1940), pp. 485-93 B. General Surveys 6. 'Keeping the Stars and Stripes in the Ether', by Stanford C. Hooper, Radio Broadcast (June 1922), pp. 127-32 7. 'Ten Years of Broadcasting', by C. W. Horn, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers (vol. 18, Mar. 1931), pp. 356-76 8. Broadcast Network Service (New York: AT&T Long Lines Department, 1934) 9. 'The Origins and Development of Radiotelephony', by Lloyd Espenschied, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers (vol. 25, Sept. 1937), pp. 1101-23 10. Patent Policies of [the] Radio Corporation of America by Otto S. Schairer (New York: RCA Institutes Press, 1939), 92 pp. Volume 3: The Business of Radio Introduction: 'Creating an Industry' 1. 'Who Will Ultimately Do the Broadcasting?', Radio Broadcast (Apr. 1923), pp. 522-6 2. 'Who Owns Our Broadcasting Stations?', by Dudley Siddall, Radio Broadcast (Feb. 1925), pp. 706-10 3. 'How Much it Costs to Broadcast', by Austin C. Lescarboura, Radio Broadcast (Sept. 1926), pp. 367-71 4. 'Radio Broadcasting: The New Goodwill Medium', and 'Gaging the Value of Broadcasting', chs. I and XVI in Using Radio in Sales Promotion: A Book for Advertisers, Station Managers, and Broadcasting Artists by Edgar H. Felix (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1927), pp. 1-10, and 245-58 5. NBC Networks: Facts and Figures (New York: NBC, 1928) 6. NBC, Broadcast Advertising (New York: NBC, 1929), pp. 77-90 7. Radio as an Advertising Medium (New York: NBC, 1934), pp. 1-40 8. U.S. Census of Business: Radio Br