Making Connections

Charles Meadow is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto and is the author of twelve books (including Ink into Bits, ISBN 0-8108-3508-8, 1998, Scarecrow Press) and many encyclopedia articles and papers in professional journals. He has worked at a number of prominent government agencies and multinational corporations including the General Electric, IBM, and the U.S. Office of Science and Technology.

List of Illustrations; Preface; Part 1: The Basics of Communications; 1 Background; Part 2: Telecommunication Before Steam and Electricity; 2 Spoken Language; 3 Writing and Printing; 4 Visual Signalling; 5 Transportation as Communication-1; Part 3: Steam, Electricity, and Internal Combustion; 6 Transportation as Communication-2; 7 Telegraph; 8 Telephone; Part 4: Electronics; 9 Radio; 10 Television; 11 Communication Satellites; 12 The Internet and the Information Highway; Part 5: Looking Backward and Forward; 13 Summation and Projection; 14 One Hundred Dates to Remember; Bibliography; Index; About the Author;