GENERAL ARCHIVES
Edwin H. Armstrong’s papers, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
David Sarnoff Archives, Hagley Museum & Library.
Owen D. Young Papers, St. Lawrence University.
The Marconi Company Archives, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Herbert Hoover’s papers, Hoover Library, West Branch, Iowa.
The Papers of Clay T. Whitehead, (1938–2008). Available in the Library of Congress.
ECONOMICS
The Federal Communications Commission, by Ronald Coase. Journal of Law and Economics 2 (October 1959).
“A Property System for Market Allocation of Electromagnetic Spectrum: A Legal-Economic-Engineering Study,” by Arthur S. de Vany, Ross D. Eckert, et al. Stanford Law Review 21:6 (June 1969).
Broadcasting in the United States, by Vincent Mosco. Ablex Publishing Corp., 1979.
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATIONS THEORY
Early FM Radio: Incremental Technology in Twentieth-Century America, by Gary L. Frost. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio 1900–1932, by Hugh G. J. Aitken. Princeton University Press, 1985.
Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audion, by Sungook Hong. The MIT Press, 2010.
The Transistor, A Semi-Conductor Triode, by J. Bardeen and W. H. Brattain. Phys. Rev. 74:230 (July 15, 1948).
Petition of Radio Corporation of America and National Broadcasting Company, Inc., for approval of color standards for the RCA color television system. Before the Federal Communications Commission, 1953.
A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude Shannon. Bell System Technical Journal 27 (July, October 1948), pp. 379–423, 623–656.
REGULATORY HISTORY & THEORY
Recommendations for Regulation of Radio Adopted by the Third National Radio Conference, October 6–10, 1924. Issued by the Government Printing Office.
To Regulate Radio Communications. Hearings before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, March 1924.
Records of the Select Committee to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission. U.S. House of Representatives, 1944.
Small business opportunities in FM broadcasting: report of the Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business, U.S. Senate, 1946.
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920–1960, by Hugh R. Slotten. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
The Red Scare, Politics, and the Federal Communications Commission, 1941–1960, by Susan Brinson. Praeger Publishers, 2004.
Progress of FM Radio. Hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, March 1948.
Investigation of Regulatory Commissions and Agencies. U.S. House of Representative, 85th Congress. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1958.
The Crisis of the Regulatory Commissions, Paul MacAvoy (editor). W. W. Norton, 1970.
Cable Television and the FCC: A Crisis in Media Control, by Don R. LeDuc. Temple University Press, 1973.
Federal Regulation and Regulatory Reform. Report by the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. House of Representatives, 94th Congress, October 1976.
CONGRESSIONAL CORRUPTION
The Professor & the Commissions, by Bernard Schwartz. Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Outer Space and Inner Sanctums, by Michael Kinsley. John Wiley & Sons, 1976.
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert Caro. Random House, 1990.
Lone Star Rising: Vol. 1: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960, by Robert Dallek. Oxford University Press, 1991.
COMPANY & INDUSTRY INFORMATION
A History of the Marconi Company, by W. J. Baker. Methuen, 1970.
John Fletcher Moulton and Guglielmo Marconi: Bridging Science, Law and Industry, by Anna Guagnini. Notes & Records of the Royal Society, 2009.
Directors’ Report of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, various 1900–1915.
Report of the Federal Trade Commission on the Radio Industry, 1923.
RCA Annual Reports, 1920–1965.
AT&T Annual Reports, 1912–1975.
FCC Annual Reports, 1934–1971
Interviews with Bill McGowan, The MCI History Project, 1988.
The History of MCI, 1968–1988, by Philip L. Cantelon. MCI Communications Corp., 1993.
BIOGRAPHIES
The General, by Kenneth Bilby. Harper & Row, 1986.
Owen D. Young and American Enterprise, by Josephine Young Case and Everett Needham Case. David R. Godine, 1982.
Beating the Odds: The Untold Story behind the Rise of ABC, by Leonard Goldenson and Marvin J. Wolf. Scribner, 1991.
Cover Story on David Sarnoff, Time magazine, July 23, 1951.
LAWS, LEGAL CASES, & LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
Edwin H. Armstrong v. Radio Corporation of America and National Broadcasting Company, civil action no. 1139. United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1948.
National Broadcasting Company, Inc., et al. v. United States, 319 US 190. Decided by Supreme Court on May 10, 1943.
MCI Telecommunications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, 561 F. 2d 365 (D.C. Cir.), 1977.
Hush-A-Phone v. United States, 238 F. 2d 266 (D.C. Cir.), 1956.
WHDH: The FCC and Broadcasting License Renewals, by Louis L. Jaffe. 82 Harvard Law Review 1693 (1968–1969)
“Ownership of Broadcasting Frequencies: A Review,” by Paul M. Segal and Harry P. Warner.
Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc., 392 US 390, 1968.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Eulogy of Edwin H. Armstrong, by Thornton Penfield Jr. (Text of original sermon courtesy of Reverend Penfield’s family.)
Architectural Diagrams of River House and Edwin Armstrong’s Apartment. (Courtesy of Columbia University School of Architecture.)
Titanic Disaster Hearings: the Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation.
Investigation of the British Wreck Commissioner, 1912. Right Honourable Lord Mersey, Wreck Commissioner.
Video of the 1921 Dempsey-Carpentier title fight (widely available online).
Reports from the Select Committee on Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited, Agreement (House of Commons, 1913).
Most Secret War, by R. V. Jones. Hamish Hamilton, 1978.
National Centers for Environmental Information, Center for Weather and Climate.
Broadcasting Magazine, various 1931–1972.
R.C.A. Review, various, 1936–1962.