The Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications
The Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications

Author: Fritz E. Froehlich

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1991-06-21

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780824729011

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"The only continuing source that helps users analyze, plan, design, evaluate, and manage integrated telecommunications networks, systems, and services, The Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications presents both basic and technologically advanced knowledge in the field. An ideal reference source for both newcomers as well as seasoned specialists, the Encyclopedia covers seven key areas--Terminals and Interfaces; Transmission; Switching, Routing, and Flow Control; Networks and Network Control; Communications Software and Protocols; Network and system Management; and Components and Processes."

The Challenge of Remaining Innovative
The Challenge of Remaining Innovative

Author: Sally H. Clarke

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0804758921

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"The contributors explore two main themes: the challenge of remaining innovative and the necessity of managing institutional boundaries in doing so. The book is organized into four parts, which move outward from individual firms; to networks or clusters of firms; to consultants and other intermediaries in the private economy who operate outside of the firms themselves; and finally to government institutions and politics. "--Editor.

A History of Control Engineering, 1930-1955
A History of Control Engineering, 1930-1955

Author: Stuart Bennett

Publisher: IET

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780863412806

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A survey of advances in the field of control engineering from 1930 to 1955, which traces the development of servomechanisms and the electronic negative feedback amplifier, and describes organizations which were developed during World War II to deal with industrial applications.

The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876
The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876

Author: A. Edward Evenson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2000-12-29

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0786408839

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The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent issued to Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876. Many problems and questions surround this patent, not the least of which was its collision in the Patent Office with a strangely similar invention by archrival Elisha Gray. A flood of lawsuits followed the patent's issue; at one point the government attempted to annul Bell's patent and launched an investigation into how it was granted. From court testimony, contemporary accounts, government documents, and the participants' correspondence, a fascinating story emerges. More than just a tale of rivalry between two inventors, it is the story of how a small group of men made Bell's patent the cornerstone for an emerging telephone monopoly. This book recounts the little-known story in full, relying on original documents (most never before published) to preserve the flavor of the debate and provide an authentic account. Among the several appendices is the "lost copy" of Bell's original patent, the document that precipitated the charge of fraud against the Bell Telephone Company.

Out of the Crystal Maze
Out of the Crystal Maze

Author: Lillian Hoddeson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1992-10-01

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 0195345320

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This landmark work chronicles the origin and evolution of solid state physics, which grew to maturity between 1920 and 1960. The book examines the early roots of the field in industrial, scientific and artistic efforts and traces them through the 1950s, when many physicists around the world recognized themselves as members of a distinct subfield of physics research centered on solids. The book opens with an account of scientific and social developments that preceded the discovery of quantum mechanics, including the invention of new experimental means for studying solids and the establishment of the first industrial laboratories. The authors set the stage for the modern era by detailing the formulation of the quantum field theory of solids. The core of the book examines six major themes: the band theory of solids; the phenomenology of imperfect crystals; the puzzle of the plastic properties of solids, solved by the discovery of dislocations; magnetism; semiconductor physics; and collective phenomena, the context in which old puzzles such as superconductivity and superfluidity were finally solved. All readers interested in the history of science will find this absorbing volume an essential resource for understanding the emergence of contemporary physics.

The Early Years of Radio Astronomy
The Early Years of Radio Astronomy

Author: W. T. Sullivan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521616027

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Recollection by pioneers in radio astronomy, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of extraterrestrial radio emission in 1933.

Surveillance Capitalism in America
Surveillance Capitalism in America

Author: Josh Lauer

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0812253353

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Surveillance Capitalism in America explores the historical development of commercial surveillance long before computers and suggests that a ubiquitous but often unseen surveillance infrastructure created by business and the state has been central to American capitalism since the nation's founding.