It entertained educated angered and delighted American of every kind age and class It taught them new ways to dance talk and think It brought the world into their living things and taught them things they didn t think they wanted An Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi is remembered as the father of radio But 3 Americans were most responsible for it s success o Lee de Forest a poor clergyman He liked to call himself the father of radio however his enemies said his discoveries were already discovered by others o Edwin Howard Armstrong a brilliant inventor with a passion for fast cars He wanted his inventions to enrich people s lives but he would spend his lifetime defending his claims against his enemies o David Sarnoff the hard driving immigrant from Russia He created the most powerful communications company on Earth and he let nothing and nobody stand in his way The world these 3 men helped make was altogether new but they were driven by idealism and imagination greed and envy ambition and determination and genius Only 1 would succeed on his own terms
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