1st edition The Story of Radio & Electronics

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By: George J. Whalen NY9A

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

First Edition: Written to help you understand it!

Want to know who invented Radio?
How Electronics began?
Start here: Back by popular demand! This little giant of a book is written to help you understand it! If Radio and Electronics are new to you, this book will show you how they began! Easy, bite-size chapters will hold your interest, yet not keep you tied-up. You'll find yourself wanting to know more and go further. (Look at the Big, 8-1/2 x 11" new second edition if you want to learn how ALL of "Radio's Heroes" advanced our knowledge and took us to the stars! Copies of key patents are included! Profusely illustrated!

This book begins the fascinating story of radio & electronics across 2 centuries of striving the world over. Great genius, perseverance, insight, inventions, discoveries, grit and valor led to today’s state-of-the-art electronics. These heroes pushed the limits of human knowledge, disrupting what was thought possible! This

Radio came just a generation after 1832’s invention of landline telegraphy, as some tried to find ways to send messages without wires. But, the path was hard. What each discovery proved, or did, helped move us forward. In learning more about electromagnetic (EM) waves, we found new ways to have them serve us. Radio has now become incredibly useful and valuable. It has grown from point-to-point messaging, through broadcasting, into personal communication, and now, to new, developing global and interstellar networking. It is our “go to” technology for any seemingly impossible task! Imagine: right now, two spacecraft made by us humans: Voyager 1 and 2, are over 15 billion miles away from our small planet, on a never-ending intergalactic trip that began in 1977. How do we know they’re still there? By the radio signals sent from their 20-watt Radio transmitters. Think of it. Those low-power transmitters will stop sending as the batteries pass on. But the voyage of these two human artifacts will never end! And, the James Webb Space Telescope now sends digital Radio images to Earth, enabling us to see clearly the Universe as it was millions and millions of years ago...all made possible by Electronics, our most versatile servant technology.

Know Electronics well. Start here. Then, go on to read the Second Edition of The Story of Radio & Electronics, which covers much more about how radio and electronics grew! Or, hear the new audiobook: The Story of Radio and Electronics, coming later this year! You will KNOW: how vacuum tubes and transistors work, how broadcasting began, how TV was invented, how cellphones came, how classic and quantum computing came, and how new global networks and satellites came to us.
I am your author: George J. Whalen. I was a former contributing editor at Popular Electronics, Popular Science, Radio-Electronics, and Electronics Illustrated. I've published 31 books on electronics and technology, been a ham radio enthusiast since 1955, hold an Amateur Extra FCC license (NY9A), and am an electronics engineer.