by Mark Frankland
contributions by Gordon Bussey
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2002
eISBN: 978-1-84919-023-7 | Cloth: 978-0-85296-203-9
Library of Congress Classification TK6545.S75F73 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 384.5092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Radio Man tells the story of C.O. Stanley, the unconventional Irishman who acquired Pye Radio at the beginning of the broadcasting age. Although he started with little experience and even less money, he was to make Pye a major player in the British electronics industry - only to crash it spectacularly forty years later. From the romance of early radio to the birth of the mobile, Stanley and Pye were players in some of the key moments of twentieth century Britain. His obsession with the infant medium of television allowed Pye to provide the equipment that put radar into planes in time for the Battle of Britain. His energy also drove Pye's pioneering work on the proximity fuse - work that would revolutionise antiaircraft warfare - and the company's manufacture of the war's most successful army radios.