Getting the Message

A History of Communications, Second Edition

Laszlo Solymar (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2021 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886300-7 (ISBN)

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Getting the Message is a unique and engaging exploration of the fascinating history of communications, starting with ancient civilisations, the Greeks and Romans, then leading through the development of the electric telegraph, and up to the present day with email and smartphones.

The technology is explained in a particularly simple and accessible way, and themes from politics, economics, and society weave in and out of the scientific ideas. The book concludes with a look at the possible future of communications, the new developments to come, and the implications these will have for our everyday lives. Lavishly illustrated, and including many original illustrations that show just how these new developments were received in their time, the book presents an informative and highly entertaining introduction to the field of communications.

This revised second edition looks at the new developments in communications over the two decades since the first edition's release.

Laszlo Solymar has been at the University of Oxford since 1966. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Paris, Copenhagen, Osnabrück, Berlin, Madrid and Budapest. He published 8 books and over 250 papers. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1995, and received the Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1992. During his career, Solymar has conducted research on antennas, microwaves, superconductivity, photorefractive materials, holography, metamaterials.

1: Introduction
2: The beginning of communications
3: The mechamical telegraph
4: The electric telegraph
5: The telephone
6: Wireless telegraphy
7: The Telephone Revisited
8: The Communications Revolution
9: Microwaves
10: The solid state revolution
11: Digitalisation
12: Optical Communications
13: Deregulation and Privatisation
14: Mobile Communications
15: The Fax Machine
16: The communications-computing symbiosis
17: Satellites again
18: Optical fibers revisited
19: The Mature Internet
20: Mobile phones, smartphones
21: Artificial Intelligence
The Future

Erscheinungsdatum	29.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	182 halftones and line illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	195 x 253 mm
Gewicht	1010 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-19-886300-4 / 0198863004
ISBN-13	978-0-19-886300-7 / 9780198863007
Zustand	Neuware