| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298) and index. |
| 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). |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Telecommunication -- History -- 20th century.
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Telecommunication. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jensen, Peter R. From the wireless to the web. Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2000 0868404586 (DLC) 00456017 |
| ISBN |
0585355428 (electronic book) |
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9780585355429 (electronic book) |
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0868404586 |
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9780868404585 |
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