The Early Development of Radio in Canada, 1901-1930
An Illustrated History of Canada’s Radio Pioneers, Broadcast Receiver Manufacturers and their Products
Edited By Robert P. Murray
| The early 1900s witnessed a technological revolution in industrial countries that brought radio into the homes of millions of people, forever changing their lifestyles. The Early Development of Radio in Canada, 1901-1930 captures the excitement of radio's early years in Canada, highlighting the unique contributions of Canada’s radio pioneers and the start-up stories of the companies that made broadcast radio reception a daily reality. It features the contributions of inventors such as Reginald Fessenden, Guglielmo Marconi, Ted Rogers, and W.W. Grant. It describes how the Canadian Marconi Company, the Northern Electric Company, the Canadian Independent Telephone Co, the Radio Corporation of America, Canadian General Electric, Canadian Westinghouse and others jostled for technological and legal advantage in the new market. Well illustrated, the book contains over 250 pictures of radio receiving apparatus, schematics, vacuum tubes, factory assembly lines, company principals, early radio stations and magazine display ads. |
ISBN 1-886606-20-X (160 pages, 8 ½ x 11” softcover) $26.95
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