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Focusing substantially on work done in and about Britain, the United States and allied countries, History of Telecommunications Technology is designed to be a road map to an expanding historical literature about a fast-changing field. Extensive name and title indexes.
List of contents
Part 1 Introduction Part 2 General Reference Works Part 3 Serial Publications Part 4 General Surveys Part 5 Institutional and Company Histories Part 6 Biography: Inventors, Scientists, and Engineers Part 7 Telegraphy Part 8 Telephony Part 9 Electromagnetic Waves Part 10 Radio Part 11 Electroacoustics and Recording Part 12 Electron Tubes and Solid State Devices Part 13 Television Part 14 Newer Media Technologies Part 15 Transmission: Mobile, Satellite, Fiber Optic, and the Internet Part 16 Telecommunications History on the Internet Part 17 Name Index Part 18 Title Index Part 19 About the Authors
About the author
George Shiers (1908-1983) was a California-based technical freelance author with several books and a host of telecommunications technology history articles to his credit. Christopher H. Sterling is a member of the George Washington University faculty, editor of Communication Booknotes Quarterly and more than a dozen books including Stay Tuned: A Concise HIstory of American Broadcasting .
