The word compromise wasn t in Armstrong s dictionary He got in trouble sometimes because of that Erik Barnouw Historian Armstrong always had confidence and always wanted to climb to high places He frightened people while climbing on top of globes on 22nd street There was tension between Sarnof and Armstrong He married Marian Armstrong s first gift to his wife was a portable heterodyne radio And the super heterodyne would change the world What started out as a wireless telegraphy had become RADIO For the first time in history one person with a microphone could talk to many and probably change their lives Now a single speaker could send many seeds of information propaganda entertainment political and religious opinions culture and even hatred across the radio The new farm metaphor that changed the nation was BROADCASTING
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