The communications miracle the telecommunication pioneers from Morse to the information superhighway
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 -...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York u.a.
Plenum Press
1995
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Zusammenfassung: | 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" telecommunicators -- Telecommunicators and the future -- "And part of which I was" : recollections of a research engineer. 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" telecommunicators -- Telecommunicators and the future -- "And part of which I was" : recollections of a research engineer |
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Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
Beschreibung: | XIX, 379 S Ill., graph. Darst 22 cm |
ISBN: | 0306450429 0-306-45042-9 |