Communications : an international history of the formative years / Russel Burns.
Pubblicazione:
London : The Institution of electrical engineers, c2004.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 639 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Serie:
IEE history of technology series ; 32
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgements. Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Communication among the ancients 2. Semaphore signalling 3. The development of electric telegraphy from c. 1750-1850 4. Electric telegraphy: commercial and social considerations 5. Submarine telegraphy 6. The telephone 7. Optical communications 8. Images by wire, picture telegraphy (1843-c. 1900) 9. Distant vision (c. 1880-1908) 10. The early wireless pioneers 11. Early experimental wireless telegraphy (1895-1898) 12. Other wireless developments 13. Maritime wireless telegraphy 14. Point-to-point communications 15. Television development (pre-1914) 16. The Great War years (1914-1918) 17. The birth of sound broadcasting 18. Some important developments in the 1920s 19. The rise and fall of low definition television (c. 1920-c. 1930) 20. The birth of high definition television 21. EMI and high definition television 22. The emergence of new technologies 23. Epilogue. Appendices. Bibliography. Index
ISBN:
0863413277
Discipline:
Ingegneria elettrotecnica e delle comunicazioni--Studi.
