Includes bibliographical references (p. [625]-628) and index.
Contents:
Communication among the ancients -- Semaphore signaling -- The development of electric telegraphy from c. 1750-1850 -- Electric telegraphy--commercial and social considerations -- Submarine telegraphy -- The telephone -- Optical communications -- Images by wire, picture telegraphy (1843-c. 1900) -- Distant vision (c. 1880-1908) -- The early wireless pioneers -- Early experimental wireless telegraphy (1895-1898) -- Other wireless developments -- Maritime wireless telegraphy -- Point-to-point communications -- Television development, pre-1914 -- The Great War years, 1914-1918 -- The birth of sound broadcasting -- Some important developments in the 1920s -- The rise and fall of low definition television, c. 1920-c. 1930 -- The birth of high definition television -- EMI and high definition television -- The emergence of new technologies.
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