| Synopsis: |
*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. |