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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Anthony, Ian.     Subjects     Rogers, Edward Samuel, 1900-1939.     Rogers Telecommunications Limited -- History.     Radio -- Canada -- Biography.     Radio -- Canada -- History.     Inventors -- Canada -- Biography.     Radio broadcasters -- Canada -- Biography.     Radio broadcasting -- Canada -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Anthony, Ian.       by title:      Radio wizard : Edwar...       by call number:      621.384092 R725r     Search the Web     Anthony, Ian.     Rogers, Edward Samuel, 1900-1939.     Rogers Telecommunications Limited -- History.     Radio -- Canada -- Biography.     Radio -- Canada -- History.     Inventors -- Canada -- Biography.     Radio broadcasters -- Canada -- Biography.     Radio broadcasting -- Canada -- History.       MARC Display

Radio wizard : Edward Samuel Rogers and the revolution of communications / Ian A. Anthony. by Anthony, Ian. Gage Publishing Company for Rogers, c2000. Call #: 621.384092 R725r Subjects Rogers, Edward Samuel, 1900-1939.   Rogers Telecommunications Limited -- History.   Radio -- Canada -- Biography.   Radio -- Canada -- History.   Inventors -- Canada -- Biography.   Radio broadcasters -- Canada -- Biography.   Radio broadcasting -- Canada -- History. ISBN:  0771580509 Alternate title:  Edward Samuel Rogers and the revolution of communications Description:  xii, 130 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-123) and index. Summary:  Born in Toronto in 1900, Edward Samuel 'Ted' Rogers Sr. learned about about wireless telegraph in school at the age of eleven. He then built his own telegraph set to send and monitor Morse Code signals. As a teenager he became a Marconi wireless operator aboard Great Lakes passenger vessels. During a 1921 radio contest he successfully sent a signal from Newmarket, Ontario to Androssan, Scotland, the only Canadian to achieve the feat. In 1924. He invented the world's first successful alternating current radio tube, enabling radios to use household electric current rather than batteries. In 1927 he established radio station CFRB in Toronto. His son, Ted Rogers Jr. went on to build the Rogers internet and media empire. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Biography 621.384092 R725r Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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