The Communications Miracle
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-45042-6 (ISBN)
As a world-renowned scientist and pioneer in British telecommunication technology, he himself was a principal player in the subject of his narrative. It would be hard to find any person more qualified to undertake a task as monumental in scale and importance.
Introduction; 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 Multichannel Telephony Coaxial Cable Systems: The First Transatlantic Telephone Cable; The First Microwave Radio-Relay Engineers; The Inventors of the Transistor and the Microchip: A Worldwide Revolution in Electronics; The Creators of Information Theory, Pulse-code Modulation, and Digital Techniques; The Pioneers of Electromechanical and Computer-Controlled Electronic Exchange Switching Systems; The First Satellite Communication Engineers; Pioneers of Long-Distance Waveguide Systems: An Unfulfilled Vision; Pioneers of Optical Fiber Communications Systems: The First Transatlantic System; Inventors of the Visual Telecommunication Systems; Information Technology and Services: Data Communication; The Mobile Radio Telecommunications; Telecommunications and the Future; And Part of which I Was: Recollections of a Research Engineer
Zusatzinfo | 118 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 379 p. 118 illus. |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-306-45042-9 / 0306450429 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-306-45042-6 / 9780306450426 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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