Download or read book Vintage Telephones of the World written by P. J. Povey and published by IET. This book was released on 1988 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental telephones / Bell and Edison / improved speaking and listening / electrophone / coinbox / early telephones from France, Sweden and Germany / first British post office phone / first world war telephones / laryngaphone.
Download or read book The Worldwide History of Telecommunications written by Anton A. Huurdeman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the Information Age... how we got there and where we are going The exchange of information is essential for both the organization of nature and the social life of mankind. Until recently, communication between people was more or less limited by geographic proximity. Today, thanks to ongoing innovations in telecommunications, we live in an Information Age where distance has ceased to be an obstacle to the sharing of ideas. The Worldwide History of Telecommunications is the first comprehensive history ever written on the subject, covering every aspect of telecommunications from a global perspective. In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author presents telecommunications as a uniquely human achievement, dependent on the contributions of many ingenious inventors, discoverers, physicists, and engineers over a period spanning more than two centuries. From the crude signaling methods employed in antiquity all the way to today’s digital era, The Worldwide History of Telecommunications features complete and fascinating coverage of the groundbreaking innovations that have served to make telecommunications the largest industry on earth, including: Optical telegraphy Electrical telegraphy via wires and cables Telephony and telephone switching Radio transmission technologies Cryptography Coaxial and optical fiber networks Telex and telefax Multimedia applications Broad in scope, yet clear and logical in its presentation, this groundbreaking book will serve as an invaluable resource for anyone involved or merely curious about the ever evolving field of telecommunications. AAP-PSP 2003 Award Winner for excellence in the discipline of the "History of Science"
Download or read book 100 Years of Bell Telephones written by Richard Mountjoy and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the technology & the history of the telephone, from the Coffin sets of the 1870s to the Princess phones of the 1960s and beyond.
Download or read book The Life and Times of A D Blumlein written by R. W. Burns and published by IET. This book was released on 2000 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his accidental death in June 1942 at the age of 38, Alan Dower Blumlein was unquestionably one of the century s most creative engineers and filed some 140 patents. He was the driving force and inspiration behind a vast number of fundamental innovations in the fields of radar, electronics and sound recording, amongst which he held perhaps the landmark patent enabling stereo sound. Surprisingly, until 1999 there had been no biographies of this remarkable man. The IEE is proud to rectify this by publication of this scholarly treatment of Blumlein's life, which includes a foreword by his eldest son.
Download or read book History of Telegraphy written by K. G. Beauchamp and published by IET. This book was released on 2001 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauchamp (1923-99, retired from the U. of Lancaster, UK) devotes the first half of the book to terrestrial telegraphy, from the beginnings of communication with mechanical signaling to the electrical system using Morse code, including a large chapter on the laying of submarine cables across the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. The second half, on aerial telegraphy, discusses its beginnings with Marconi and its use on board ships and aircraft in both world wars. Dozens of maps show routes of telegraph cable and figures depict old telegraph equipment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Television written by R. W. Burns and published by IET. This book was released on 1998 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a balanced, thorough history of television to 1940, considering the factors technical, financial and social which influenced and led to the establishment of many of the world's high-definition TV broadcasting services. This is a major book in the study of history of science, technology and media.
Download or read book The GEC Research Laboratories 1919 1984 written by Sir Robert Clayton and published by IET. This book was released on 1989 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the activities of the GEC Research Laboratories from 1919 until their end in 1984, this book includes sections on the original organisation and philosophy behind the laboratories, a decade by decade summary of the work, and specialist chapters focussing on such areas as lamps and lighting, valves, communications and semiconductors.
Download or read book Lord Kelvin written by Paul Tunbridge and published by IET. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelvin's great accomplishment was to bring together all the experimental scientists of his time into one co-operative association for investigators whose individual efforts were aided by their combined results, expressed in a notation and described in language understood by everyone.
Download or read book Communications written by R. W. Burns and published by IET. This book was released on 2004 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communications: An international history of the formative years traces the evolution of communications from 500 BC, when fire beacons were used for signalling, to the 1940s, when high definition television systems were developed for the entertainment, education and enlightenment of society. The book does not simply provide a chronicle of dates and events, nor is it a descriptive catalogue of devices and systems. Rather, it discusses the essential factors - technical, political, social, economic and general - that enabled the evolution of modern communications. The author has taken a contextual approach to show the influence of one discipline upon another, and the unfolding story has been widely illustrated with contemporary quotations, allowing the progress of communications to be seen from the perspective of the times and not from the standpoint of a later generation.
Download or read book The Early History of Radio written by G.R.M. Garratt and published by IET. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio was as much the culmination of the work of a series of scientists in the 19th Century, starting with Faraday, as it was an invention by Marconi. This book aims to illustrate the contributions made by these scientists and show how each was dependent upon the work and ideas of his predecessors; Faraday, Henry, Maxwell, Hughes, Fitzgerald, Hertz, Lodge and Marconi.
Download or read book Forecasting the Telephone written by Ithiel de Sola Pool and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies the approach of technology assessment to the telephone. The author's analysis forecasts the effect of the telephone on society and compares it with the reality. This book not only examines the social consequences of the telephone, but provides a model for future efficient assessments of new technologies. It documents a largely unknown piece of the history of American technology and anlayzes the requirements for success in technological forecasting.
Download or read book Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS written by Brian Bowers and published by IET. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Charles Wheatstone and the role he played in the early years of electrical engineering, particularly the electric telegraph. Published to celebrate the bicentennial of Wheatstone's birthday, the second edition expands information about the family business and the concertina he invented, and draws on letters exchanged with Cooke and Faraday. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Radio Man written by Mark Frankland and published by IET. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, Stanley bought a small radio manufacturing company from its founder, W. G. Pye. By the time it crashed and burned in 1966, the Pye company had become an international empire employing 30,000 workers, and was associated with some of the most dramatic application of electronics in the period. Frankland, a journalist with a background in history, tells the story of the man and his company. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Telecommunications Research Resources written by James K. Bracken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the telecommunication and information field expands and becomes more varied, so do publications about these technologies and industries. This book is a first attempt to provide a general guide to that wealth of English-language publications -- both books and periodicals -- on all aspects of telecommunication. It is a comprehensive, evaluative sourcebook for telecommunications research in the United States that brings together a topically-arranged, cross-referenced, and indexed volume in one place. The information provided is only available by consulting a succession of different directories, guides, bibliographies, yearbooks, and other resources. On the one hand, it is a directory that describes in detail the major entities that comprise the American telecommunication research infrastructure including federal and state government offices and agencies, and private, public, and corporate research institutions. On the other hand, it is a bibliography that identifies and assesses the most important and useful reference and critical resources about U.S. telecommunication history, technology, industry and economics, social applications and impacts, plus policy, law and regulations, and role in the global telecommunication marketplace. No existing guide covers all of these aspects in the depth and detail of this volume.
Download or read book Restoring Baird s Image written by Donald F. McLean and published by IET. This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baird, a British television pioneer, experimented with video recording on gramophone discs in the late 1920s. McLean (a consultant) has restored the surviving "Phonovision" discs and, using computer techniques reminiscent of an archaeological dig, has revealed the images on the discs and uncovered details of how the recordings were made. McLean also restored amateur recordings of the BBC's 30-line Television Services (1932-1935), providing a glimpse at what viewers were then watching. This book helps explain this period in television history. Illustrated with historic photographs, it sheds light on the achievements of Baird, the development of video recording, and the definition and invention of television itself. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book A Scientist s War written by Sir Clifford Paterson and published by IET. This book was released on 1991 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the diary he kept from 1939 until 1945, recording work in the laboratories and his own wider role in the planning and organisation of the scientific war effort, against the background of the progress of the war problems of members of his staff. A recurring theme is the development and production in the laboratories of more than 300,000 thermionic valves of 45 new types.
Download or read book Wireless the Crucial Decade written by Gordon Bussey and published by IET. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the broadcasting trends and receiver developments in Europe and America, and includes a detailed account of wireless development in Britain.
