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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1. Verfasser: Bray, John (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 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
Beschreibung:Literaturangaben
Beschreibung:XIX, 379 S
Ill., graph. Darst
22 cm
ISBN:0306450429
0-306-45042-9