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A Telephone for the World Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age / Martin Collins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Martin J., 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artificial satellites in telecommunication--United States--History.
- Artificial satellites in telecommunication.
- Telecommunication--United States--History.
- Telecommunication.
- Iridium Communications, Inc.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- The first book to tell the story of Iridium in this context, A Telephone for the World is a fascinating look at how people, nations, and corporations across the world grappled in different ways with the meaning of a new historical era.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Iridium and the global age
- The global and the engineers
- The global and Iridium the business
- "Freedom to communicate": ideology and culture in the global
- From "it's a bird, it's a phone..." to "Edsels in the sky": or, the end of Iridium's global vision
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2484-3
- OCLC:
- 1038274583
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