Audiobook - Adult Non Fiction - Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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file. OT Farnsworth versus David Sarnoff In The Last Lone Inventor. A Tale of Genius, Deceit and the Birth of Television. By Evan I. Schwartz. Chapter four. Patently Brilliant As Philo T. Farnsworth was fixing to set up his first television laboratory, David Sarnoff was searching for a way to a lasso. All the excitement surrounding radio stores all over the United States were now selling factory made receivers a sharp improvement from the mail order radio kits that had to be assembled in basements, addicts and kitchens. Manufacturers had produced 100,000 radios in 1922 and the figure jumped to 500,000 in 1923 and more than two million by 1926. Prices for basic sets now dipped below $25 making radio affordable to the middle class masses who weren't inclined to construct their own. In the mad scramble to reach this new audience, everyone was starting stations. The Chicago Tribune launched W G n for world's greatest newspaper. Sears started WLS for world's largest store, and a preacher in Richmond began broadcasting over WLS V. Will the Lord save Virginia companies saw radio as an efficient new way to communicate with their customers. And so they began hiring announcers and technicians by the thousands. The most popular singers and musicians were flocking to the new medium. Bring a symphony orchestra into your home without leaving your seat, said one advertisement, one ad for radio tubes pictured a drawing of Al Jolson in blackface and white lips. Funny, the ad exclaimed. He's a riot! A laugh factory. Ah, fifth alarm. The whole nation knows his name and fame. Listen in when next he's on the air, radio leaps the barriers of time and distance. Just because corporations in the public fell in love with radio didn't mean they understood exactly what it waas. Many people developed irrational fears over electromagnetic shock syndrome. At least one farmer complained to his local radio station that there was a dead bird on his property and that it must have been struck down by a radio wave. What if the wave it struck me? He cried. Others greatly exaggerated radios. Powers, the former navy secretary during the Great War, made what turned out to be one of the most off based predictions in military history. Nobody now fears that the Japanese could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions, he said. Radio makes such a surprise impossible