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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2010-03-31
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780262514194
- Book Title
- Wireless : from Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Topic
- Mobile & Wireless Communications, Radio, History
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A new look at the early history of wireless communication. By 1897 Guglielmo Marconi had transformed James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves into a workable wireless telegraphy system, and by 1907 Lee de Forest had invented the Audion, a feedback amplifier and oscillator that opened the way to practical radio transmission. Fifteen years after Marconi's invention, wireless had become an essential means of communication, as well as a hobby for many. This book offers a new perspective on the early days of wireless communication. Drawing on previously untapped archival evidence and recent work in the history and sociology of science and technology, it examines the substance and context of both experimental and theoretical aspects of engineering and scientific practices in the first years of this technology. It offers new insights into the relationship between Marconi and his scientific advisor, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming (inventor of the vacuum tube). It includes the full story of the infamous 1903 incident in which Marconi's opponent Nevil Maskelyne interfered with Fleming's public demonstration of Marconi's syntonic (tuning) system at the Royal Institution by sending derogatory messages from his own transmitter. The analysis of the Maskelyne affair highlights the struggle between Marconi and his opponents, the efficacy of early syntonic devices, Fleming's role as a public witness to Marconi's private experiments, and the nature of Marconi's shows. It also provides a rare case study of how the credibility of an engineer can be created, consumed, and suddenly destroyed. The book concludes with a discussion of de Forest's Audion and the shift from wireless telegraphy to radio.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262514192
ISBN-13
9780262514194
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79625770
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wireless : from Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mobile & Wireless Communications, Radio, History
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tk6547.H66 2010
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"This is a carefully drawn and well-written study that sheds new light on an old butcentral story." Communications Booknotes Quarterly, "Historians of science and technology will regard this book as the definitive work onthe scientific underpinnings and technological development of wireless in its first fifteen years."David Hochfelder Business History Review, "Historians of science and technology will regard this book as the definitive work on the scientific underpinnings and technological development of wireless in its first fifteen years." David Hochfelder Business History Review, Historians of science and technology will regard this book as the definitive work on the scientific underpinnings and technological development of wireless in its first fifteen years., "This is a carefully drawn and well-written study that sheds new light on an old but central story." Communications Booknotes Quarterly, "This is a carefully drawn and well-written study that sheds new light on an old but central story." - Communications Booknotes Quarterly, Historians of science and technology will regard this book as the definitive work on the scientific underpinnings and technological development of wireless in its first fifteen years.-- Business History Review -- This is a carefully drawn and well-written study that sheds new light on an old but central story. -- Communications Booknotes Quarterly --
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
384.5/2/09034
Series
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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