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The communications miracle : the telecommunication pioneers from Morse to the information superhighway / John Bray

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: New York [u.a.] : Plenum Press, 1995Description: XIX, 379 S : Ill., graph. Darst ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0306450429
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 621.382/09 20
  • 384.09
RVK: RVK: ZN 3130 | AP 18000LOC classification:
  • TK139
Contents:
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  • 2
Summary: Introduction -- Creators of the mathematical and scientific foundations -- The first telegraph and cable engineers -- The first telephone engineers -- Inventors of the thermionic valve -- The telegraph-telephone frequency-division multiplex transmission engineers -- Pioneers of radio communication -- Pioneers of sound radio broadcasting -- Pioneers of television broadcasting -- The engineers of the early multichannel telephony coaxial cable systems : the first transatlantic telephone cable -- The first microwave radio-relay engineers -- The inventors of the transistor and the microchip : a worldwide revolution in electronics -- The creators of information theory, pulse-code modulation, and digital techniques -- The pioneers of electromechanical and computer-controlled electronic exchange switching systems -- The first satellite communication engineers -- Pioneers of long-distance waveguide systems : an unfulfilled vision -- Pioneers of optical fiber communications systems : the first transatlantic system -- Inventors of the visual telecommunication systems -- Information technology and services : data communication -- The "mobile radio" telecommunicators -- Telecommunicators and the future -- "And part of which I was" : recollections of a research engineerCall number: Grundsignatur: 2014 A 2586PPN: PPN: 187508151
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Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Nord nach 0.8 Lesesaal CN 2014 A 2586 Available 51998868090
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