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By 1933, Edwin Armstrong had filed key patents for techniques he developed that were to eventually make FM radio successful. His professional relationship with Marion's former boss, Sarnoff, fractured when Sarnoff who was by then the President of RCA, concluded the development of FM radio was not in the best interests of RCA, which operated an ...
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 [2] – February 1, 1954 [3]) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system.
ISBN 0-8129-0672-1 (cloth) – A thoughtful biography by an early associate of Sarnoff's. Lewis, Tom. (1991). Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio. New York: HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-018215-1 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-06-098119-8 – Profiles Sarnoff's life along with those of Edwin Armstrong and Lee De Forest, drawing on archival sources.
The film focused primarily [5] on the three pioneers [6] of radio in America: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. [7] The program interspersed audio and musical highlights of "old time" radio with the stories, achievements, failures, scams and bitter feuds between each of the main protagonists. [8]
People who died in the year 1954. See also: 1954 births. ... Edwin Howard Armstrong; Mule Armstrong; William Boardman Armstrong;
Thomas W. Sarnoff, a longtime NBC executive who went on to hold leadership roles at the Television Academy, died on June 4. He was 96. From 1965 to 1977, Sarnoff served as staff executive vice ...
Married actors Kyle Schmid and Caity Lotz are teaming up for their new Lifetime movie, Yoga Teacher Killer: The Kaitlin Armstrong Story, and sharing what it was like transforming into the real ...
David Sarnoff fell seriously ill in 1970 and was removed from the board, at which point Robert became chairman of the board as well as CEO. The elder Sarnoff died in December, 1971. Earlier that year, Robert sold RCA's computer division to Sperry Rand at a $490 million loss, an action which resulted in significant criticism within the company.