| Charles Herrold, Inventor of Radio Broadcasting Contributor(s): Greb, Gordon (Author), Adams, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786416904 ISBN-13: 9780786416905 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2003 Annotation: The worlds first radio station still broadcasting today was invented by Charles Herrold in 1909 in San Jose, California. His accomplishment was first documented in a notarized statement written by him and published in the Electro-Importing Companys 1910 catalog: We have given wireless phone concerts to amateur wireless men throughout the Santa Clara Valley. Being the first to broadcast radio entertainment and information to a mass audience puts him at the forefront of modern day mass communication. This biography of Charles Herrold focuses on how he used primitive technology to get on the air. Today it is a 50,000-watt station (KCBS, in San Francisco). The authors describe Herrolds story as one of early triumph and final failure, the story of an everyman, an individual who was an innovator but never received recognition for his work and, as a result, died penniless. His most important work was done between 1912 and 1917, and following World War I, he received a license and operated station KQW for several years before running out of money. Herrold then worked as a radio time salesman, an audiovisual technician for a high school, and a janitor at a local naval facility, still telling anyone who would listen to him that he was the father of radio. The authors also consider some other early inventors, and the directions that their work took. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Performing Arts | Radio - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003013981 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.96" W x 9.98" (1.00 lbs) 247 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Still broadcasting today, the world's first radio station was invented by Charles Herrold in 1909 in San Jose, California. His accomplishment was first documented in a notarized statement written by him and published in the Electro-Importing Company's 1910 catalog: We have given wireless phone concerts to amateur wireless men throughout the Santa Clara Valley. Being the first to broadcast radio entertainment and information to a mass audience puts him at the forefront of modern day mass communication. This biography of Charles Herrold focuses on how he used primitive technology to get on the air. Today it is a 50,000-watt station (KCBS, in San Francisco). The authors describe Herrold's story as one of early triumph and final failure, the story of an everyman, an individual who was an innovator but never received recognition for his work and, as a result, died penniless. His most important work was done between 1912 and 1917, and following World War I, he received a license and operated station KQW for several years before running out of money. Herrold then worked as a radio time salesman, an audiovisual technician for a high school, and a janitor at a local naval facility, still telling anyone who would listen to him that he was the father of radio. The authors also consider some other early inventors, and the directions that their work took. |