Communications. An international history of the formative years

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Describes the evolution of information communication from early times largely to 1940s, moving from one improvement to the next and placing this evolution within a technical, political, social and economic context. Its sections include: communication among the ancients; semaphore signalling; electric telegraphy, c1750-1850; electric telegraphy - commercial and social issues; submarine telegraphy; the telephone; optical communications; images by wire, picture telegraphy, 1843-c1900; 'distant vision', c1880-1908; early wireless pioneers; early experimental wireless telegraphy, 1895-98; other wireless developments; maritime wireless telegraphy; 'point-to-point communications'; television development, pre-1914; the Great War years, 1914-18; birth of sound broadcasting; some important developments in the 1920s; the rise and fall of low definition television, c1920-30; the birth of high definition television; EMI and high definition television; emergence of new technologies