Castle Ridge Press – Specialising in the history of the early radio broadcast era

Castle Ridge Press promotes publications concentrating on the early history of radio telegraphy, telephony and broadcasting. Chronicling enterprises active in the first decades of the twentieth century concerned with commercial wireless communications - and those involved in radio development for the home - much of the focus is on the companies' products and the story of the pioneers behind them. On the domestic front, these organisations ranged from large, established firms already active in the electrical engineering field to small-scale "high street" businesses attracted by the huge market opportunities at the dawn of wireless broadcasting. Entrepreneurs, engineers, inventors - the founders of these enterprises, invariably determined, often eccentric and, with a few noteworthy exceptions, nearly always egotistical - were a mixed bag.