Standby

This is the story of Frank E. Butler, a young man with humble beginnings and a meager education who participated in significant historic events.From Monroeville, Ohio, the youthful Butler worked his way up to a very enviable job offer with the New York Central Railway. But after a hurried visit to the 1904 St. Louis World s Fair, his life was irrevocably altered.Lured by the demonstrations presented by the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Co. and intoxicated by the crackles of the high voltage spark-gap arcs, the smell of ozone, and the intrigue of wireless technology, Butler left home and became an assistant to Lee de Forest.Since 1948, this significant memoir by the editor s grandfather has been hidden away, waiting to be resurrected from dusty files and boxed manuscripts. The author s dying wish get the book published is now, finally, fulfilled.Gain a new appreciation for the challenges of advancing wireless telegraphy and learn how an unlikely figure played a key role in developing technology that caught the attention of monopolistic eyes in The Standby, which chronicles the promise of a new and growing communications/electronics industry.