WWJ - The Detroit News". The History of Radiophone Broadcasting by the Earliest and Foremost of Newspaper Stations; Together With Information on Radio for Amateur and Expert
by Miller, George E., editor; The Radio Staff of The Detroit News
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Detroit: The Evening News Association, 1922. Hardcover. 95p., profusely illustrated in b&w with an abundance of site (newsroom interiors & equipment) and portrait photography, and many diagrams, large & small. Small hardbound in tobacco-brown boards titled brown, quite worn with a ruined spine panel having splits along both joints and missing chunks. Covers also abraded and flecked with soil, while the textblock is sound, clean and unmarked. An adequate reading copy. Laid in is a contemporary subscription application form (3.5x5.5 inches), period presswork on both sides, not filled out. "The first newspaper in the world to install a radio broadcasting station, and the first to increase its social usefulness by furnishing such a service to the public" (free of course). At the start, broadcasting was limited to a 100-mile radius, and there were only about 300 receivers. As for the book: in addition to numerous interior pix of personnel facing huge transmitters, find appended elaborate directions (visual and textual) how to build "receiving or 'crystal' sets", aerials, and grave cautionings re lightning strikes, how to avoid injury, installing "lightning rods
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 313181
- Title
- WWJ - The Detroit News". The History of Radiophone Broadcasting by the Earliest and Foremost of Newspaper Stations; Together With Information on Radio for Amateur and Expert
- Author
- Miller, George E., editor; The Radio Staff of The Detroit News
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Evening News Association
- Place of Publication
- Detroit
- Date Published
- 1922
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Journalism; Radio; Engineering; Detroit;
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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