The Radio Industry The Story Of Its Development

The radio industry the story of its development As told by leaders of the industry to the students of the graduate school of business administration George F. Baker foundation Harvard University Lectures from many different leaders of some of the major early electronics companies like GE, RCA and Westinghouse

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Excerpt from The Radio Industry: The Story of Its Development This series of lectures was delivered at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration as part of the Business Policy course during the academic year 1927-1928. We regret that several outstanding men in the radio industry were unable for one reason or another to accept our invitations to participate in this series. It is for this reason that the names of Dr. de Forest, Mr. Atwater Kent, Dr. Hazeltine, and others of prominence, do not appear among those of the speakers. The lectures have been published as they were delivered, and the speakers assume responsibility for whatever statements were made in the lectures. I hereby express the appreciation of the School and of the class before which the lectures were delivered to all those who contributed their time and effort to making this series a success, and more especially to Mr. David Sarnoff, without whose enthusiastic support of the project we should not have dared to undertake it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Introduced by David Sarnoff, the 11 lectures in this collection were originally delivered before a business policy course at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. The Radio Industry reviews the history of radio, both technically and economically, and focuses upon legal problems, the first year of the NBC network, radio advertising, and the merchandising of radio receivers. The fact that radio industry leaders of the era gave the lectures at a time when the large network systems were being organized and the Federal Government was moving to control them makes this volume a particularly interesting reference.

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