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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. Although 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. From the romance of early radio to the birth of the mobile, Stanley and Pye were players in some of the key moments of twentieth century Britain. His obsession with the infant medium of television allowed Pye to provide the equipment that put radar into planes in time for the Battle of Britain. His energy also drove Pye's pioneering work on the proximity fuse - work that would revolutionise antiaircraft warfare - and the company's manufacture of the war's most successful army radios. In the 1950s Stanley led the offensive against the BBC's monopoly of television in a battle that split the British establishment. When his son, John, took Pye into mobile radio Stanley fought and defeated the bureaucrats who then controlled Britain's airwaves. Stanley's loss of Pye in 1966 illustrated British industry's inability to withstand foreign competition. It also brought tragedy

Who reads Radio Man: The remarkable rise and fall of C.O. Stanley (History and Management of Technology)?

Author

Mark Frankland; Institution of Electrical Engineers.; Stanley Foundation

Publisher

P. Peregrinus on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; Institution Of Engineering And Technology

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281971418

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Memoir, History