Wireless from Marconi's black-box to the audion

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Hong, Sungook
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
SeriesTransformations (M.I.T. Press)
Subjects
Radio > History.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262275637
9780585436135
9780262082983
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xiv, 248 pages) : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • Hertzian optics and wireless telegraphy
  • Inventing the invention of wireless telegraphy : Marconi versus Lodge
  • Grafting power technology onto wireless telegraphy : Marconi and Fleming on transatlantic signaling
  • Tuning, jamming, and the Maskelyne affair
  • Transforming an effect into an artifact : the thermionic valve
  • The audion and the continuous wave
  • Epilogue : The making of the radio age
  • Appendix : Electronic theory and the "good earth" in wireless telegraphy.

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