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Features: Customer Reviews: Pink Optical Mouse Very comfortable to use This is a GREAT little laptop mouse Saitek Notebook optical mouse
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| Oreck XL AIRCOM1BRP Compact Air Purifier with Free Oreck Refrigerator Air Purifier | |||||||||||||||||||
Features: Customer Reviews: Really Excellent Product:):):):):):):):):):):):):) Great for my allergies!!
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| Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio by K starring Jason Robards, Guglielmo Marconi, Ken Bilby, Garrison Keillor, Norman Corwin |
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Customer Reviews: Pop-sociology fluff. The disc consists entirely of pop-sociology fluff. There are interviews with elderly people recollecting the first time they heard a radio program. There is footage from old radio programs, that is, from the work done by actors in studios. There are images of glowing radio tubes, with no attempt to explain what is going on. There is footage of Frank Sinatra singing about the radio business. There is commentary on Lee de Forest’s love life. This disc is an insult to the viewer. There is little in the disc to hold the attention of any intelligent child or adult. The disc under review is a real challenge to the mind. What this means is that the task of finding anything interesting in the disc is a real challenge. The disc claims to have been inspired by Tom Lewis’ excellent book, Empire of the Air. I found little resemblance, except in the titles. Tom Lewis’ book, Empire of the Air, is a captivating, fact-based, account of the business and commercial interests of the various inventors of the radio, and radio broadcasting. Mr.Lewis’ book does not digress into the wasteland of pop-sociology fluff, as does the disc. Tom Lewis’ book gets FIVE STARS. Tom Lewis’ book Divided Highways, an accounting of the recent history of the U.S. highway system, also deserves FIVE STARS. If you are further interested in engineering and inventions from the early 20th century, I would also recommend John Van Der Zee’s highly readable book about the Golden Gate Bridge: The Gate: The True Story of the Design and Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. John Van Der Zee also gets FIVE STARS. But the disc under review is pure junk, an insult to anyone in the radio business or radio industrym, and an insult to any curious child or adult. ZERO STARS for the disc. Yuck. Blaugh. Ick. Before Books There Was Oral History In our continuing devolution, our history is being digitized. And history can be distorted, too. Career historians often sense that they are fighting a continuing battle against those who would put faith into the old saying that history belongs to the victors. But, there’s another issue today: history belongs to Ken Burns. At least American history does. And if he decides to ignore Nikola Tesla, then Tesla will be ignored. Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist, who was born on July 9 or 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika (Austria-Hungary) and died on January 7, 1943 in New York City. Among many other things, he invented radio after inventing wireless transmission. He also invented a telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current system, the induction motor, alternating-current power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, fluorescent lights, and held more more than 700 other patents. Radio would not have existed without Tesla’s crucial contributions, but he’s not even mentioned here. So, Sarnoff (defined by another writer as “a communist’s idea of a capitalist”), deForest and others get the billing, and Tesla vanishes. I’d guess it’s because Tesla’s not photogenic. Even though this is (intentionally) a short treatment of a big subject, I don’t know how Burns can produce this and still call himself a historian. Lukewarm air
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