Innovation and the communications revolution : from the Victorian pioneers to broadband Internet / John Bray.

Author
Bray, John, 1911- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Institution of Electrical Engineers, ©2002.
Description
xx, 313 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Creators of the mathematical and scientific foundations
    • The first telegraph and cable engineers
    • The first telephone engineers
    • Inventors of the thermionic valve
    • The telegraph-telephone frequency-division multiplex transmission engineers
    • Pioneers of radio communication
    • Pioneers of sound radio broadcasting
    • Pioneers of television broadcasting
    • The engineers of the early multi-channel telephony coaxial cable systems: the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable
    • The first microwave radio-relay engineers
    • The inventors of the transistor and the microchip: a world-wide revolution in electronics
    • The creators of information theory, pulse-code modulation and digital techniques
    • The pioneers of electro-mechanical and computer-controlled electronic exchange switching systems
    • The first satellite communication engineers
    • Pioneers of long-distance waveguide systems: an unfulfilled vision
    • Pioneers of optical fibre communication systems: the first trans-Atlantic system
    • Inventors of the visual telecommunication systems
    • Information technology and services: data communication
    • Growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web
    • The development of the mobile radio service
    • Telecommunications and the future.
    ISBN
    • 0852962185
    • 9780852962183
    LCCN
    2004533186
    OCLC
    48884995
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