Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991 • Documentary, History

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This film examines the lives of three men, Lee de Forest, Edwin Armstrong, and David Sarnoff who shared the primary responsibility for the invention of the radio, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways.

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