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Getting the message : a history of communications / Laszlo Solymar.
LIBRA TK5102.2 .S65 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solymar, L. (Laszlo), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telecommunication--History.
- Telecommunication.
- History.
- Communication--History.
- Communication.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 358 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The First Thirty-Six Centuries
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Beginnings of Communications
- 3. The Mechanical Telegraph
- pt. II The Beginning of Electrical Communications
- 4. The Electrical Telegraph
- 5. The Telephone
- 6. Wireless Telegraphy
- 7. The Telephone Revisited
- pt. III The Modern Age Beckons
- 8. Great Advances
- 9. Microwaves
- 10. Devices Go Solid State
- 11. Digitalization
- 12. Optical Communications: The Beginning
- 13. Deregulation and Privatization
- 14. Mobile Communications: The Beginning
- 15. The Fax Machine
- 16. The Communications-Computing Symbiosis: The Beginning
- pt. IV Communications Galore
- 17. Satellites Again
- 18. Optical Fibres Revisited
- 19. The Mature Internet
- 20. Mobile Phones, Smartphones
- 21. Artificial Intelligence
- 22. The Future.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780198863007
- 0198863004
- OCLC:
- 1198978990
- Publisher Number:
- 99988443509
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