Communications
Communications

Author: R. W. Burns

Publisher: IET

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 9780863413278

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Communications: An international history of the formative years traces the evolution of communications from 500 BC, when fire beacons were used for signalling, to the 1940s, when high definition television systems were developed for the entertainment, education and enlightenment of society. The book does not simply provide a chronicle of dates and events, nor is it a descriptive catalogue of devices and systems. Rather, it discusses the essential factors - technical, political, social, economic and general - that enabled the evolution of modern communications. The author has taken a contextual approach to show the influence of one discipline upon another, and the unfolding story has been widely illustrated with contemporary quotations, allowing the progress of communications to be seen from the perspective of the times and not from the standpoint of a later generation.

Proceedings of the IEEE.
Proceedings of the IEEE.

Author: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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Vols. 34- include section: Waves and electrons.

The Invisible Industrialist
The Invisible Industrialist

Author: J. Gaudillière

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1998-07-13

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1349264431

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Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.