Radio Man: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of C.O. Stanley (Iee History of Technology Series, 30) - Hardcover

Frankland, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852962037 ISBN 13: 9780852962039

Verlag: INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING & T, 2002

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Radio Man tells the story of C.O. Stanley, the unconventional Irishman who acquired Pye Radio at the beginning of the broadcasting age. Though he started with little experience and even less money, he was to make Pye a major player in the British electronics industry - only to crash it spectacularly forty years later. This revealing and meticulously researched text is written within the broad context of the political, technological and business changes of the time, and shows how a very ambitious businessman was brought down by the qualities that made him so successful.

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Mark Frankland read history at Cambridge and at Brown University, USA. He was a foreign correspondent for The Observer, working in the Soviet Union, the Far East, Europe and the United States. He twice won the British Press Awards prize for foreign reporting. His most recent book, Child of My Time (Chatto & Windus, 1999), won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for autobiography. His account of the collapse of communism in east Europe, The Patriots' Revolution (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990), was shortlisted for the NCR award. He is the author of five other books, including Khrushchev (Penguin Books, 1966) and The Sixth Continent (Hamish Hamilton, 1986), a study of Russia under Mikhail Gorbachev.

Gordon Bussey is the Historical Adviser to Philips Electronics UK Ltd. and a Trustee of the Marconi Collection. He was a contributor and former referee to the London School of Economics Dictionary of Business Biography. He is the author of numerous publications on wirelessrelated subjects including Marconi's Atlantic Leap, published in 2001. He has also given extensive historical and technical advice to the producers of the BAFTA award-winning website, www.marconicalling.com. In 2000 he was the historical consultant to the Royal Mint during the preparation of their legal tender £2 coin issued in 2001 commemorating Marconi's transatlantic centenary and he also provided the edge inscription for the coin. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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• Verlag: INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING & T
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0852962037
• ISBN 13: 9780852962039
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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