Telephone for the World - Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age

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.

About the author

Martin Collins is a curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He is the author of Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State, 1945-1950.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Collins, Martin (Curator Collins, Martin J. Collins
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781421424835
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2483-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mobile & Wireless Communications, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Mobile phone technology, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, History of the Americas, Satellite communication