History of Telecommunications Technology: An Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810837812)

*Featuring more than 2,500 annotated bibliographic entries that trace the history of major telecommunications technologies over the past 175 years.

*Focusing substantially on work done in and about Britain, the United States and allied countries, it is designed to be a road map to an expanding historical literature about a fast-changing field. Extensive name and title indexes.

*Chapters cover general reference works, serial publications, general surveys, institutional and company histories, biographies of inventors and scientists, telegraphy, telephony, electromagnetic waves, radio, electroacoustics and recording, electron tubes and solid state devices, television, newer media technologies (cable and digital services), mobile/satellite/fiber transmission/Internet, and selected telecommunications history sites on the Internet.

*Offering, as a special guide for collectors, as complete a chronological listing as possible of the pioneering English-language books on different telecommunications services.

Author: Christopher H. Sterling,George Shiers
ISBN-10: 0810837811
ISBN-13: 9780810837812
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2000
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.79w x 1.13d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 09/01/2000 pg. 152
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 196
Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1248
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2001 pg. 695
Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr 01/01/2001 pg. 243