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Wireless : From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion /

"By 1897 Guglielmo Marconi had transformed James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves into a workable wireless telegraphy system, and by 1907 Lee de Forest had invented the audion, a feedback amplifier and oscillator that opened the way to practical radio transmission. Fifteen y...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hong, Sungook
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hertzian optics and wireless telegraphy
  • Inventing the invention of wireless telegraphy : Marconi versus Lodge
  • Grafting power technology onto wireless telegraphy : Marconi and Fleming on transatlantic signaling
  • Tuning, jamming, and the Maskelyne affair
  • Transforming an effect into an artifact : the thermionic valve
  • The audion and the continuous wave
  • Epilogue : The making of the radio age
  • Appendix : Electronic theory and the "good earth" in wireless telegraphy.