From Wireless
to Radio

‘David Sarnoff (1891 – 1971) [had] grown up with the radio industry. At the age of fifteen he became an office boy for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company in 1906. When he was 21 he sat at the wireless key for 72 hours, directing the rescue efforts for survivors of Titanic. From there he began his steady climb to the presidency of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)”. Sarnoff played a vital roll in the development of the telephone, and at the time this article went to press, he was hard at work at Visual Radio (aka Television).