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Mike’s New Book, Columbus Radio, Arcadia Press, 2016. Two professors and a preacher invented Columbus radio. By 1922, licenses had been issued for WEAO at Ohio State University and WJD at Denison University. At this same time, a Baptist minister went on the air for an hour each Sunday using a 10-watt transmitter licensed as WMAN. WEAO becomes WOSU, a national pioneer in using radio for teaching; WMAN becomes WCOL and in the 1960s is number one in audience size; and CBS affiliate WBNS becomes the class act of Columbus radio. These and many other stations are all part of this illustrated story of Columbus radio. Read about it in the Dispatch.

Mike’s 2015 Book, The Radio Boys and Girls: Radio, Telegraph, Telephone and Wireless Adventures for Juvenile Readers,1890-1945, 2015 McFarland. Before television and the Internet, books about plucky youths braving danger and adventure with the help of wireless communication brought young people together. They gathered in basements to build crystal sets. They built transmitters and talked to each other across neighborhoods, cities and states. By 1920, there was music on the radio and boys and girls tuned in on homemade sets, inspired by their favorite stories.   See the Author’s Websit

Mike’s 2012 Book, Lee de Forest, King of Radio, Television, and Film, 2012, Springer Science. It features new research on the de Forest invention of sound-on-film, and fits his work into the parallel development of film and radio. Mike documents how de Forest used 19^th Century science to help create 20^th Century art. The book details de Forest’s contribution in changing the history of film through the incorporation of sound. The text includes primary source historical material, U.S. patents and photos of de Forest’s experiments. More information about the life of Lee de Forest can be found on the Author’s Website: http://www.leedeforest.org

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