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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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2001.
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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.