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Seven wonders of communication / by Donald Cleveland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cleveland, Donald, 1935- author.
- Series:
- Lerangis, Peter. Seven wonders.
- Seven wonders
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telecommunication--Juvenile literature.
- Telecommunication.
- Multimedia communications--Juvenile literature.
- Multimedia communications.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book discusses seven wonders of communication: language, the telephone, cameras, television, personal computers, the World Wide Web, and robot communication. The author describes how each wonder works and what part it has played in the field of communications.
- Contents:
- Tell me something : the incredible human language
- Give me a call : telephones then and now
- Say cheese : cameras from a black box to digital
- Pictures out of the air : the magic of television
- Password, please : the personal computer
- Learn, play, or just fool around : the World Wide Web
- Talking to machines : the wonders of robot communication
- Timeline.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-77) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-53119-0
- 9786612531194
- 0-7613-5988-5
- OCLC:
- 748211583
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