The History Of Telecommunications

Author : Anton A. Huurdeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0471205052

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The Worldwide History of Telecommunications by Anton A. Huurdeman Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the Information Age... how we got there and where we are going The exchange of information is essential for both the organization of nature and the social life of mankind. Until recently, communication between people was more or less limited by geographic proximity. Today, thanks to ongoing innovations in telecommunications, we live in an Information Age where distance has ceased to be an obstacle to the sharing of ideas. The Worldwide History of Telecommunications is the first comprehensive history ever written on the subject, covering every aspect of telecommunications from a global perspective. In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author presents telecommunications as a uniquely human achievement, dependent on the contributions of many ingenious inventors, discoverers, physicists, and engineers over a period spanning more than two centuries. From the crude signaling methods employed in antiquity all the way to today’s digital era, The Worldwide History of Telecommunications features complete and fascinating coverage of the groundbreaking innovations that have served to make telecommunications the largest industry on earth, including: Optical telegraphy Electrical telegraphy via wires and cables Telephony and telephone switching Radio transmission technologies Cryptography Coaxial and optical fiber networks Telex and telefax Multimedia applications Broad in scope, yet clear and logical in its presentation, this groundbreaking book will serve as an invaluable resource for anyone involved or merely curious about the ever evolving field of telecommunications. AAP-PSP 2003 Award Winner for excellence in the discipline of the "History of Science"

Author : Anton A. Huurdeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780471205050

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The Worldwide History of Telecommunications by Anton A. Huurdeman Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the Information Age... how we got there and where we are going The exchange of information is essential for both the organization of nature and the social life of mankind. Until recently, communication between people was more or less limited by geographic proximity. Today, thanks to ongoing innovations in telecommunications, we live in an Information Age where distance has ceased to be an obstacle to the sharing of ideas. The Worldwide History of Telecommunications is the first comprehensive history ever written on the subject, covering every aspect of telecommunications from a global perspective. In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author presents telecommunications as a uniquely human achievement, dependent on the contributions of many ingenious inventors, discoverers, physicists, and engineers over a period spanning more than two centuries. From the crude signaling methods employed in antiquity all the way to today’s digital era, The Worldwide History of Telecommunications features complete and fascinating coverage of the groundbreaking innovations that have served to make telecommunications the largest industry on earth, including: Optical telegraphy Electrical telegraphy via wires and cables Telephony and telephone switching Radio transmission technologies Cryptography Coaxial and optical fiber networks Telex and telefax Multimedia applications Broad in scope, yet clear and logical in its presentation, this groundbreaking book will serve as an invaluable resource for anyone involved or merely curious about the ever evolving field of telecommunications. AAP-PSP 2003 Award Winner for excellence in the discipline of the "History of Science"

Author : Marshall T. Poe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139495578

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A History of Communications by Marshall T. Poe Pdf

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.

Author : Gabriele Balbi,Andreas Fickers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110669770

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History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) by Gabriele Balbi,Andreas Fickers Pdf

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the first international organization ever and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the field of transnational communications, the book covers the history of ITU from 1865 to digital times in a truly global perspective, taking into account several technologies like the telegraph, the telephone, cables, wireless, radio, television, satellites, mobile phone, the internet and others. The main goal is to identify the long-term strategies of regulation and the techno-diplomatic manoeuvres taken inside ITU, from convincing the majority of the nations to establish the official seat of the Telegraph Union bureau in Switzerland in the 1860s, to contrasting the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance (supported by US and ICANN). History of the International Telecommunication Union is a trans-disciplinary text and can be interesting for scholars and students in the fields of telecommunications, media, international organizations, transnational communication, diplomacy, political economy of communication, STS, and others. It has the ambition to become a reference point in the history of ITU and, at the same time, just the fi rst comprehensive step towards a longer, inter-technological, political and cultural history of transnational communications to be written in the future.

Author : Robert J. Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037155962

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A Voice from Afar by Robert J. Collins Pdf

Author : Christopher Sterling,Phyllis W. Bernt,Martin B.H. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135690649

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Shaping American Telecommunications by Christopher Sterling,Phyllis W. Bernt,Martin B.H. Weiss Pdf

Shaping American Telecommunications examines the technical, regulatory, and economic forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This volume is both an introduction to the basic technical, economic, and regulatory principles underlying telecommunications, and a detailed account of major events that have marked development of the sector in the United States. Beginning with the introduction of the telegraph and continuing through to current developments in wireless and online services, authors Christopher H. Sterling, Phyllis W. Bernt, and Martin B.H. Weiss explain each stage of telecommunications development, examining the interplay among technical innovation, policy decisions, and regulatory developments. Offering an integrated treatment of the interplay among technology, policy, and economics as key factors defining the development of the telecommunications sector in the United States, this volume also provides: *background material to facilitate understanding of each sector; *contexts for many so-called "new" issues, problems, and trends, demonstrating origins from years or decades in the past; and *careful annotation, documentation, and reference tables to enable further research on the topics discussed. This unique multidisciplinary approach provides a balanced view of U.S. telecommunications history, in context with relevant economic, legal, social, and technical analyses. As such, it is essential reading for advanced students in telecommunications needing to understand how the telecommunications industry and service developed to its current form. The volume will also serve as a supplemental text in courses on telecommunications regulation, and it will be of value to professionals in the field seeking context and background for their daily work.

Author : Peter Simonson,Janice Peck,Robert T Craig,John Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136514302

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The Handbook of Communication History by Peter Simonson,Janice Peck,Robert T Craig,John Jackson Pdf

The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of communication cuts across social, cultural, intellectual, political, technological, institutional, and economic history. The volume examines the history of communication history; the history of ideas of communication; the history of communication media; and the history of the field of communication. Readers will explore the history of the object under consideration (relevant practices, media, and ideas), review its manifestations in different regions and cultures (comparative dimensions), and orient toward current thinking and historical research on the topic (current state of the field). As a whole, the volume gathers disparate strands of communication history into one volume, offering an accessible and panoramic view of the development of communication over time and geographical places, and providing a catalyst to further work in communication history.

Author : Jean-Guy Rens
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780773568440

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Invisible Empire by Jean-Guy Rens Pdf

It is impossible to understand Canada without looking at the history and development of its telecommunications industry. In the nineteenth century Canada was the only country in the world constructed on the basis of technology - first the railway and, in its shadow, telegraphy. In the 1930s this technological nationalism came of age and telecommunications became Canada's "national" technology. The Invisible Empire provides the first overview of Canadian telecommunications, from the laying of the first telegraph line between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846 to the separation between Nortel - then known as Northern Electric - and the American Bell System in 1956. Rens shows us that Louis Riel was beaten as much by telegraphy as by the Canadian army, and how Bell Canada - then known as Bell Telephone - escaped nationalization by Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government. He follows the construction of the first trans-Canadian telephone line in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s and explains why, in the context of the Cold War, Canada built an electronic Great Wall of China in the far North. Rens examines the context that allowed the telecommunications industry to take hold so successfully in Canada and explores how the industry grew so quickly and managed to escape American domination. He situates Canadian accomplishments in telecommunications by comparing them with those of other countries.

Author : Richard R. John
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674088139

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Network Nation by Richard R. John Pdf

The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a progressive political economy that idealized public utility and disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasnÕt until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in 1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.

Author : Christopher H. Sterling,George Shiers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015050283970

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History of Telecommunications Technology by Christopher H. Sterling,George Shiers Pdf

Lists some 2,500 English-language works related to the history of major telecommunications technologies over the past 175 years. In addition to having sections devoted to the various media of communication (radio, television, the Internet, etc.) the work covers institutional histories, personal biographies, general surveys, and reference works. This is an updated version of the 1972 work Bibliography of the History of Electronics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Emmanuel Bertin,Noel Crespi,Thomas Magedanz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642415692

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Evolution of Telecommunication Services by Emmanuel Bertin,Noel Crespi,Thomas Magedanz Pdf

In the telecom world, services have usually been conceived with a specific mindset. This mindset has defined the traditional characteristics of these services; services distinguished by their linkage with the access network, tight control over service use (e.g., authentication, billing), lack of deep personalization capabilities (mass services only) and reliance on standardization to achieve end-to-end interoperability between all the actors of the value chain (e.g., operators, platform manufacturers, device manufactures). This book offers insights into this complex but exciting world of telecommunications characterized by constant evolution, and approaches it from technology as well as business perspectives. The book is appropriately structured in three parts: (a) an overview of the state-of-the-art in fixed/mobile NGN and standardization activities; (b) an analysis of the competitive landscape between operators, device manufactures and OTT providers, emphasizing why network operators are challenged on their home turf; and (c) opportunities for business modeling and innovative telecom service offers.

Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781484640357

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The History of Telecommunications by Chris Oxlade Pdf

Do you know that 200 years ago, the only way that one person could send a message to another person was by letter or messenger? It's hard to imagine now, with our smartphones and computers at our fingertips. From the invention of the telegraph in the 1830s all the way through to the wearable technology of the present day, this book charts the incredible history of telecommunications.

Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781484655573

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The History of Telecommunications by Chris Oxlade Pdf

Do you know that 200 years ago, the only way that one person could send a message to another person was by letter or messenger? ItÕs hard to imagine now, with our smartphones and computers at our fingertips. From the invention of the telegraph in the 1830s all the way through to the wearable technology of the present day, this book charts the incredible history of telecommunications.

Author : George P. Oslin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : 0865546592

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The Story of Telecommunications by George P. Oslin Pdf

This is George P. Oslin's life work. Among hundreds who told him their experiences were Thomas A. Edison, William Henry Jackson (Civil War soldier, pioneer photographer, and covered wagon bullwhacker), and William Campbell (last surviving Pony Express rider). Facts from company documents, thousands of newspapers, magazines, and books, and more than 100,000 letters and diaries of the pioneers were pieced together and condensed into the real story of their struggles, strategy, and success.

Author : Philip Loubere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429560712

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A History of Communication Technology by Philip Loubere Pdf

This book is a comprehensive illustrated account of the technologies and inventions in mass communication that have accelerated the advancement of human culture and society. A History of Communication Technology covers a timeline in the history of mass communication that begins with human prehistory and extends all the way to the current digital age. Using rich, full-color graphics and diagrams, the book details the workings of various mass communication inventions, from paper-making, printing presses, photography, radio, TV, film, and video, to computers, digital devices, and the Internet. Readers are given insightful narratives on the social impact of these technologies, brief historical accounts of the inventors, and sidebars on the related technologies that enabled these inventions. This book is ideal for students in introductory mass communication, visual communication, and history of media courses, offering a highly approachable, graphic-oriented approach to the history of communication technologies.