History of Telecommunications Technology: An Annotated Bibliography - Couverture rigide

Sterling, Christopher H.; Shiers, George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0810837811 ISBN 13 : 9780810837812

Editeur : Scarecrow Press, 2000

Synopsis

*Featuring more than 2,500 annotated bibliographic entries that trace the history of major telecommunications technologies over the past 175 years.

*Focusing substantially on work done in and about Britain, the United States and allied countries, it is designed to be a road map to an expanding historical literature about a fast-changing field. Extensive name and title indexes.

*Chapters cover general reference works, serial publications, general surveys, institutional and company histories, biographies of inventors and scientists, telegraphy, telephony, electromagnetic waves, radio, electroacoustics and recording, electron tubes and solid state devices, television, newer media technologies (cable and digital services), mobile/satellite/fiber transmission/Internet, and selected telecommunications history sites on the Internet.

*Offering, as a special guide for collectors, as complete a chronological listing as possible of the pioneering English-language books on different telecommunications services.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

George Shiers (1908-1983) was a California-based technical freelance author with several books and a host of telecommunications technology history articles to his credit. Christopher H. Sterling is a member of the George Washington University faculty, editor of Communication Booknotes Quarterly and more than a dozen books including Stay Tuned: A Concise HIstory of American Broadcasting .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scarecrow Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810837811
• ISBN 13: 9780810837812
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne