Innovation and the communications revolution : from the Victorian pioneers to broadband Internet / John Bray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bray, John, 1911-

Contributor:

Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication--History.

Telecommunication.

History.

Telecommunication--Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

xx, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Institution of Electrical Engineers, [2002]

Contents:

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 telegraph-telephone frequency-division multiplex transmission engineers 59

7 Pioneers of radio communication 65

8 Pioneers of sound radio broadcasting 83

9 Pioneers of television broadcasting 95

10 The engineers of the early multi-channel telephony coaxial cable systems: the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable 113

11 The first microwave radio-relay engineers 129

12 The inventors of the transistor and the microchip: a world-wide revolution in electronics 149

13 The creators of information theory, pulse-code modulation and digital techniques 169

14 The pioneers of electro-mechanical and computer-controlled electronic exchange switching systems 179

15 The first satellite communication engineers 201

16 Pioneers of long-distance waveguide systems: an unfulfilled vision 217

17 Pioneers of optical fibre communication systems: the first trans-Atlantic system 227

18 Inventors of the visual telecommunication systems 251

19 Information technology and services: data communication 267

20 Growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web 281

21 The development of the mobile radio service 287

22 Telecommunications and the future 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0852962185

OCLC:

48884995