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Reddit mentions of Syntony and Spark: The Origins of Radio (Princeton Legacy Library)
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| Release date | September 1985 |
| Weight | 1.56307743758 Pounds |
Probably not a single book. My picks for this are:
Syntony and Spark: The Origins of Radio
Continuous Wave
These are not "equation deriving technical" books but highly footnoted historical overviews of the key events and technologies involved in radio between Maxwell's and radio by the 1930s.
What's interesting (to me) about the 2nd book is the focus on Federal Telegraph which made a bizarro radio technology called an "Arc Converter". Federal Telegraph were originally located in Palo Alto, site of Silicon Valley.
In fact if you read the history of Hewlett-Packard in The HP Way (which is juicy in its name-dropping historically reality: Varian, Litton, Tektronix, Fleming, Terman, and... Federal Telegraph) you'll see there is a line of causality from these early technologies to present-day Silicon Valley that is quite spectacular.
Filling these out post-HP are:
The Secret History of Silicon Valley
The American Experience: Silicon Valley
There are crazy people in engineering who claim this history is irrelevant. Honestly it only makes sense and is only really interesting knowing it.