The Originals of Silicon Valley
Mike Adams
California Historical Radio Society
January 19th, 2018 - 6:00PM

Mike Adams

In the final decades of the nineteenth century two young men would migrate from the Midwest to the Bay Area. Both were inventors, both had been physics majors, one Yale, the other Stanford. Both would receive patents in electronics and radio. Both worked in the Santa Clara Valley over 100 years ago. This is the story of two Silicon Valley originals: Lee de Forest and Charles Herrold.

Links to Prof. Adams books on Amazon:

• MikeAdams.org
• Lee de Forest
• Doc Herrold
• The Radio Boys and Girls, the story of the highly popular series of books published between 1922 and 1930
• Columbus Radio History

Videos and lectures on Youtube:

• The First Radio System
• A Brief History of Radio Devices
• Lee de Forest
• CHRS San Francisco Bay Area Radio History Part 1, Bart lee speaking
• CHRS San Francisco Bay Area Radio History Part 2, Mike Adams speaking
• CHRS San Francisco Bay Area Radio History Part 3, Len Shapiro speaking

Speaker Bio

Mike Adams has been a radio personality and a film maker. Currently he is professor emeritus of radio, television, and film at San Jose State University, where he has been a department chair and the Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts.

Adams has taught at the Shanghai Theatre Academy School of Television and Film. As a researcher and writer of broadcast and early technology history, he created two award-winning documentaries for PBS, the Emmy-nominated “Radio Collector,” and “Broadcasting’s Forgotten Father.”

Mike is the Board Chair of the California Historical Radio Society, CHRS. For his service to historical radio research and publication he received the AWA (Antique Wireless Association) Houck Award, the SCARS (Southern California Historical Radio Society) President’s Award, the TCA (Tube Collectors of America) Stokes Award, the RCA (Radio Club of America) Ralph Batcher Award, and he was named a CHRS History Fellow.

He has had published numerous articles and six books, including Lee de Forest, King of Radio, Television and Film, 2012, Springer Science, The Radio Boys and Girls: Radio, Telegraph, Telephone and Wireless Adventures for Juvenile Readers, 1890-1945, McFarland Press, 2015, and Columbus Radio, Arcadia, 2016.

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Speaker: Mike Adams