Christopher H Sterling: 4 books
Shaping American Telecommunications
A History of Technology, Policy, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Shaping American Telecommunications examines the technical, regulatory, and economic forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This volume is both an introduction to the basic technical, economic, and regulatory principles underlying telecommunications, and a...
Sounds of Change
A History of FM Broadcasting in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael Keith...
Stay Tuned
A History of American Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Since its initial publication in 1978, Stay Tuned has been recognized as the most comprehensive and useful single-volume history of American broadcasting and electronic media available. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to bring the story of American broadcasting forward to...
Airlines
Charting Air Transport History with R.E.G. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
R.E.G. Davies worked in the commercial aviation industry from 1948 to 1981 and then moved into the academic world of air transport history as Lindbergh Professor of Air Transport History at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. After holding this post for 2 years he was appointed Curator...