Author(s): John Bray
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 336
Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 20
1 Introduction......Page 22
2 Creators of the mathematical and scientific foundations......Page 28
3 The first telegraph and cable engineers......Page 52
4 The first telephone engineers......Page 64
5 Inventors of the thermionic valve......Page 74
6 The telegraph-telephone frequency-division multiplex transmission engineers......Page 80
7 Pioneers of radio communication......Page 86
8 Pioneers of sound radio broadcasting......Page 104
9 Pioneers of television broadcasting......Page 116
10 The engineers of the early multi-channel telephony coaxial cablesystems: the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable......Page 134
11 The first microwave radio-relay engineers......Page 150
12 The inventors of the transistor and the microchip: a world-wide revolution in electronics......Page 170
13 The creators of information theory, pulse-code modulation and digital techniques......Page 190
14 The pioneers of electro-mechanical and computer-controlled electronic exchange switching systems......Page 200
15 The first satellite communication engineers......Page 222
16 Pioneers of long-distance waveguide systems: an unfulfilled vision......Page 238
17 Pioneers of optical fibre communication systems: the first trans-Atlantic system......Page 248
18 Inventors of the visual telecommunication systems......Page 272
19 Information technology and services: data communication......Page 288
20 Growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web......Page 302
21 The development of the mobile radio service......Page 308
22 Telecommunications and the future......Page 316
Name index......Page 326
Subject index......Page 330
