From the wireless to the web : the evolution of telecommunications, 1901-2001 / Peter R. Jensen.

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Jensen, Peter R

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TextPublication details: Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585355428
9780585355429

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: From the wireless to the web.DDC classification:

025.04

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TK5102.2 .J46 2000eb

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05.42

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Contents:

Early communications (before 1901) -- Babbage--frustrated genius (the mid-1800s) -- Marconi's gamble (1901) -- Telecommunication (1901 to 1914). Feature: Spark transmission methods -- The Mawson expedition (1911 to 1912) -- Wireless in the First World War (1914 to 1918). Feature: Reception before the valve -- Radio dinosaurs (1918 to 1922) -- Communications developments (1918 to 1938). Feature: Farnsworth and Zworykin -- Waves in the air (1918 to 1939) -- Comptometry and analysis (1871 to 1939). Feature: Typewriters and data entry -- Radio at war (1939 to 1945) -- Codes, ciphers and colossus (1939 to 1945) -- Solid state and silicon chip (1945 to 1975). Feature: Values, reception and transmission -- Creation of the computer (1945 to 1975) -- Links in the Web (1901 to 1995) -- Communications on the move (1927 to the present). Feature: Hams and hackers -- Microcomputer revolution (1975 to the present) -- Micro-comms (Beyond 2000).

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Review: "From the Wireless to the Web: The Evolution of Telecommunications 1901 to 2001 is a story of endeavour, from the discovery and development of early radio to the present forms of communication. It describes how there has been a series of technological developments and events that has led inexorably to the achievement of enhanced person-to-person communications, the Internet and the World Wide Web. The book marks the centenary of the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in the United Kingdom to Marconi in St John's, Newfoundland."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298) and index.

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"From the Wireless to the Web: The Evolution of Telecommunications 1901 to 2001 is a story of endeavour, from the discovery and development of early radio to the present forms of communication. It describes how there has been a series of technological developments and events that has led inexorably to the achievement of enhanced person-to-person communications, the Internet and the World Wide Web. The book marks the centenary of the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in the United Kingdom to Marconi in St John's, Newfoundland."--Jacket

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