| Description |
xix, 379 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Creators of the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations -- Ch. 3. The First Telegraph and Cable Engineers -- Ch. 4. The First Telephone Engineers -- Ch. 5. Inventors of the Thermionic Valve -- Ch. 6. The Telegraph-Telephone Frequency-Division Multiplex Transmission Engineers -- Ch. 7. Pioneers of Radio Communication -- Ch. 8. Pioneers of Sound Radio Broadcasting -- Ch. 9. Pioneers of Television Broadcasting -- Ch. 10. The Engineers of the Early Multichannel Telephony Coaxial Cable Systems: The First Transatlantic Telephone Cable -- Ch. 11. The First Microwave Radio-Relay Engineers -- Ch. 12. The Inventors of the Transistor and the Microchip: A Worldwide Revolution in Electronics -- Ch. 13. The Creators of Information Theory, Pulse-Code Modulation, and Digital Techniques -- Ch. 14. The Pioneers of Electromechanical and Computer-Controlled Electronic Exchange Switching Systems -- Ch. 15. The First Satellite Communication Engineers |
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Ch. 16. Pioneers of Long-Distance Waveguide Systems: An Unfulfilled Vision -- Ch. 17. Pioneers of Optical Fiber Communication Systems: The First Transatlantic System -- Ch. 18. Inventors of the Visual Telecommunication Systems -- Ch. 19. Information Technology and Services: Data Communication -- Ch. 20. The "Mobile Radio" Telecommunicators -- Ch. 21. Telecommunicators and the Future -- Ch. 22. "And Part of Which I Was": Recollections of a Research Engineer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Electrical engineers -- Biography.
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Telecommunication -- Biography.
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Telecommunications engineers -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
95024622 |
| ISBN |
0306450429 |
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