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Vendor: Chen-Pang Yeang
Probing the Sky with Radio Waves: From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science
By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was why radio waves followed the curvature of...- $38.00
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Transforming Noise: A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955
Today, the concept of noise is employed to characterize random fluctuations in general. Before the twentieth century, however, noise only meant disturbing sounds. In the 1900s-50s, noise underwent a conceptual transformation from unwanted sounds that needed to be domesticated into a synonym for errors...- $70.00
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