From the wireless to the web : the evolution of telecommunications, 1901-2001 /

"From the Wireless to the Web: The Evolution of Telecommunications 1901 to 2001 is a story of endeavour, from the discovery and development of early radio to the present forms of communication. It describes how there has been a series of technological developments and events that has led inexor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jensen, Peter R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2000.
Temas:
1900-1999
Telecommunication > History > 20th century.
Télécommunications > Histoire > 20e siècle.
COMPUTERS > Online Services.
COMPUTERS > System Administration > Storage & Retrieval.
Telecommunication.
Telecommunicatie.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early communications (before 1901)
  • Babbage--frustrated genius (the mid-1800s)
  • Marconi's gamble (1901)
  • Telecommunication (1901 to 1914). Feature: Spark transmission methods
  • The Mawson expedition (1911 to 1912)
  • Wireless in the First World War (1914 to 1918). Feature: Reception before the valve
  • Radio dinosaurs (1918 to 1922)
  • Communications developments (1918 to 1938). Feature: Farnsworth and Zworykin
  • Waves in the air (1918 to 1939)
  • Comptometry and analysis (1871 to 1939). Feature: Typewriters and data entry
  • Radio at war (1939 to 1945)
  • Codes, ciphers and colossus (1939 to 1945)
  • Solid state and silicon chip (1945 to 1975). Feature: Values, reception and transmission
  • Creation of the computer (1945 to 1975)
  • Links in the Web (1901 to 1995)
  • Communications on the move (1927 to the present). Feature: Hams and hackers
  • Microcomputer revolution (1975 to the present)
  • Micro-comms (Beyond 2000).

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