Communications: An International History of the Formative Years (History of Technology)

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
1 Communication among the ancients......Page 14
2 Semaphore signalling......Page 42
3 The development of electric telegraphy from c. 1750–1850......Page 70
4 Electric telegraphy – commercial and social considerations......Page 106
5 Submarine telegraphy......Page 138
6 The telephone......Page 178
7 Optical communications......Page 204
8 Images by wire, picture telegraphy (1843–c. 1900)......Page 220
9 Distant vision (c. 1880–1908)......Page 240
10 The early wireless pioneers......Page 266
11 Early experimental wireless telegraphy (1895–1898)......Page 294
12 Other wireless developments......Page 326
13 Maritime wireless telegraphy......Page 356
14 Point-to-point communications......Page 386
15 Television development, pre-1914......Page 400
16 The Great War years, 1914–1918......Page 414
17 The birth of sound broadcasting......Page 436
18 Some important developments in the 1920s......Page 464
19 The rise and fall of low definition television, c. 1920–c. 1930......Page 492
20 The birth of high definition television......Page 524
21 EMI and high definition television......Page 554
22 The emergence of new technologies......Page 588
23 Epilogue......Page 616
Appendices......Page 626
Bibliography......Page 638
Index......Page 642