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| | Oral History - Radio Pioneers |
 | | Scientific matters discussed include types of sending apparatus, early experiments with wireless, radio antennas, wireless and radio transmitters, the Alexanderson alternator, early experiments with television, transmitters for radio stations, mobile radio units, problems of engineering in network broadcasts, manufacturers' laboratory research, and the effects of WWII on radio engineering. |
 | | Radio's relations with government are dealt with in accounts of the Washington Conference assigning international wavelengths, 1927; Federal Radio Commission; FCC, radio law and legislation; government regulation and comparisons of radio in the US, Great Britain, and Canada; the British Broadcasting Corporation; patent-licensing and the Department of Justice, 1932; US censorship in WWII; postwar problems. |
 | | The growth of networks and network competition with local stations is detailed in accounts of the development of NBC, the Red and Blue networks and the outgrowth of the American Broadcasting Company from them, CBS, Mutual Broadcasting System, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the stations of General Electric and Westinghouse. |
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