Communications : an international history of the formative years
著者
書誌事項
Communications : an international history of the formative years
（History of technology series, 32）
Institution of Electrical Engineers, c2004
- pbk.
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [625]-628) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Communications: An international history of the formative years traces the evolution of communications from 500 BC, when fire beacons were used for signalling, to the 1940s, when high definition television systems were developed for the entertainment, education and enlightenment of society. The book does not simply provide a chronicle of dates and events, nor is it a descriptive catalogue of devices and systems. Rather, it discusses the essential factors - technical, political, social, economic and general - that enabled the evolution of modern communications. The author has taken a contextual approach to show the influence of one discipline upon another, and the unfolding story has been widely illustrated with contemporary quotations, allowing the progress of communications to be seen from the perspective of the times and not from the standpoint of a later generation.
目次
Chapter 1: Communication among the ancients
Chapter 2: Semaphore signalling
Chapter 3: The development of electric telegraphy from c. 1750-1850
Chapter 4: Electric telegraphy - commercial and social considerations
Chapter 5: Submarine telegraphy
Chapter 6: The telephone
Chapter 7: Optical communications
Chapter 8: Images by wire, picture telegraphy (1843-c. 1900)
Chapter 9: Distant vision (c. 1880-1908)
Chapter 10: The early wireless pioneers
Chapter 11: Early experimental wireless telegraphy (1895-1898)
Chapter 12: Other wireless developments
Chapter 13: Maritime wireless telegraphy
Chapter 14: Point-to-point communications
Chapter 15: Television development, pre-1914
Chapter 16: The Great War years, 1914-1918
Chapter 17: The birth of sound broadcasting
Chapter 18: Some important developments in the 1920s
Chapter 19: The rise and fall of low definition television, c. 1920-c. 1930
Chapter 20: The birth of high definition television
Chapter 21: EMI and high definition television
Chapter 22: The emergence of new technologies
Chapter 23: Epilogue
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