abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (abeles) (04/06/84)
eat me Those interested in the history of radio would probably be quite interested to read the biography of David Sarnoff by Eugene Lyons. While Sarnoff was not a scientist or inventor, he did in a sense invent the concept of broadcast radio, among other concepts. Evidently it was originally not envisioned in the electronics industry that radio was good for anything other than point-to-point communication. It is Sarnoff who was responsible for the development of radio and then television by the RCA corporation. RCA was originally owned by General Electric and then also Westinghouse, the two industrial giants from the electric industry which had been making money on light bulbs etc. It was not allowed to do any manufacturing, but later managed to enter into it mainly by buying up the Victrola corporation when it became apparent that phonographs and radios were similar and should be integrated.