Innovation and the Communications Revolution: From the Victorian Pioneers to Broadband InternetThis book describes the stage-by-stage creation and development, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, of the remarkable global communications technologies that have profoundly transformed the way that people live and work. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Creators of the mathematical and scientific foundations | 7 |
3 The first telegraph and cable engineers | 31 |
4 The first telephone engineers | 43 |
5 Inventors of the thermionic valve | 53 |
6 The telegraphtelephone frequencydivision multiplex transmission engineers | 59 |
7 Pioneers of radio communication | 65 |
8 Pioneers of sound radio broadcasting | 83 |
14 The pioneers of electromechanical and computercontrolled electronic exchange switching systems | 179 |
15 The first satellite communication engineers | 201 |
an unfulfilled vision | 217 |
the first transAtlantic system | 227 |
18 Inventors of the visual telecommunication systems | 251 |
data communication | 267 |
20 Growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web | 281 |
21 The development of the mobile radio service | 287 |
9 Pioneers of television broadcasting | 95 |
the first transAtlantic telephone cable | 113 |
11 The first microwave radiorelay engineers | 129 |
a worldwide revolution in electronics | 149 |
13 The creators of information theory pulsecode modulation and digital techniques | 169 |
22 Telecommunications and the future | 295 |
| 305 | |
| 309 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achieved aerial amplifier awarded bandwidth became Bell Laboratories Bell System British Post Office British Telecom cable systems carrier wave channels Chapter coaxial cable contributions demonstrated devices Dollis Hill early economic Electrical Engineers electromagnetic electronic switching enabled equipment exchange switching experimental facsimile field trial Figure frequency frequency modulation frequency-division multiplex innovation inter-city Internet invention inventor involved ISDN later London long-distance magnetic manufacturing Marconi Company Martlesham mathematical Mbit/sec microchip microns microwave microwave radio-relay systems millimetric mobile modulation multiplex operating orbit patent picture pioneers possible problems programmes propagation pulse-code modulation radio receiver Research satellite communication scientific semi-conductor short-wave signals spectrum station studies submarine cable switching systems techniques telecommunication telegraph telephone circuits television broadcasting Telstar thermionic valve tion trans-Atlantic transistor transmission transmitted users Viewdata waveguide wavelength wire Wireless