The Marconigraph
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1911
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1911
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Radio
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Author : W. J. Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134526148
This accessible work provides a detailed picture of the history of one of the most important companies in the electronic industry.
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Radio
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Bills, Legislative
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Author : Marc Raboy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0199313601
A little over a century ago, the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships could now make contact with other ships (saving lives, such as on the doomed S.S. Titanic); financial markets could coordinate with other financial markets, establishing the price of commodities and fixing exchange rates; military commanders could connect with the front lines, positioning artillery and directing troop movements. Suddenly and irrevocably, time and space telescoped beyond what had been thought imaginable. Someone had not only imagined this networked world but realized it: Guglielmo Marconi. As Marc Raboy shows us in this enthralling and comprehensive biography, Marconi was the first truly global figure in modern communications. Born to an Italian father and an Irish mother, he was in many ways stateless, working his cosmopolitanism to advantage. Through a combination of skill, tenacity, luck, vision, and timing, Marconi popularized--and, more critically, patented--the use of radio waves. Soon after he burst into public view at the age of 22 with a demonstration of his wireless apparatus in London, 1896, he established his Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company and seemed unstoppable. He was decorated by the Czar of Russia, named an Italian Senator, knighted by King George V of England, and awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics--all before the age of 40. Until his death in 1937, Marconi was at the heart of every major innovation in electronic communication, courted by powerful scientific, political, and financial interests. He established stations and transmitters in every corner of the globe, from Newfoundland to Buenos Aires, Hawaii to Saint Petersburg. Based on original research and unpublished archival materials in four countries and several languages, Raboy's book is the first to connect significant parts of Marconi's story, from his early days in Italy, to his groundbreaking experiments, to his protean role in world affairs. Raboy also explores Marconi's relationshps with his wives, mistresses, and children, and examines in unsparing detail the last ten years of the inventor's life, when he returned to Italy and became a pillar of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. Raboy's engrossing biography, which will stand as the authoritative work of its subject, proves that we still live in the world Marconi created.
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Page : 942 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Electronics
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Author : Daniel J. Czitrom
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807899208
In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Electronics
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 1911
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