Wireless
From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion
$54.07
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
22 January 2010
Summary
A new look at the early history of wireless communication.By 1897 Guglielmo Marconi had transformed James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic waves into a workable wireless telegraphy system, and by 1907 Lee de Forest had invented the Audion, a feedback amplifier and oscillator that opened the way to practical radio transmission. Fifteen years after Marconi’s invention, wireless had become an essential means of communication, as well as a hobby for many.This book offers a new perspectiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262514194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262514192 |
| Author: | Sungook Hong |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 22 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
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Critics Review
“This is a carefully drawn and well-written study that sheds new light on an old butcentral story.” Communications Booknotes Quarterly
Historians of science and technology will regard this book as the definitive work on the scientific underpinnings and technological development of wireless in its first fifteen years.
—Business History ReviewThis is a carefully drawn and well-written study that sheds new light on an old but central story.
—Communications Booknotes QuarterlyAbout The Author
Sungook Hong
Sungook Hong is Associate Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.
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