Description
Radio Pioneers Published in 1945 by the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) as a keepsake for their Radio Pioneers Dinner in November 1945. You get a history of the IRE from it's beginning in 1908 complete with photos of John Stone Stone Robert Marriott Pickard Kennelly Pupin Pierce Morecroft Langmuir and others. Pictures of early tubes Poulsen in his lab Marconi parabolic reflectors a Fessenden alternator and more. The history is brief fast reading but informative. If you're not up on early radio history this is a fun way to get your feet wet. You'll meet the personalities and discover what they did. Then you can go digging for more information about those topics that sound most interesting. 64 pages.