This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Papers Tell Tragic Story of Armstrong Inventor of FM Radio
Columbia University houses about 200000 Armstrong papers tracing Edwin Howard Armstrong, inventor of FM radio, whose legal battles with RCA and others ruined his health and finances. The collection preserves his work on regenerative and superheterodyne circuits and the rise of FM broadcasting.
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Edwin Howard Armstrong
Columbia University
Mr. Armstrong
Armstrong
Edison
RCA
East 52Nd Street
Marion Armstrong
John H. Rose
Columbia
Mr. Bose
Bose
Alpine
N.J