The Standby

<p>This is the story of Frank E. Butler a young man with humble beginnings and a meager education who participated in significant historic events.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>