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Dot-Dash to Dot.Com

How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet

Andrew Wheen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2010
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-6759-6 (ISBN)

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Telecommunications is a major global industry, and this unique book chronicles the development of this complex technology from the electric telegraph to the Internet in a simple, accessible, and entertaining way. The book opens with the early years of the electric telegraph. The reader will learn how the Morse telegraph evolved into an international network that spanned the globe, starting with the development of international undersea cables, and the heroic attempts to lay a trans-Atlantic cable. The book describes the events that led to the invention of the telephone, and the subsequent disputes over who had really invented it. It takes a look at some of the most important applications that have appeared on the Internet, the mobile revolution, and ends with a discussion of future key developments in the telecommunications industry.

Andrew Wheen has worked in the telecommunications field since 1982. He has held senior engineering and product management roles with major suppliers of telecommunications equipment and was one of the original architects of the Energis network in the United Kingdom (now Cable & Wireless). More recently, he has worked as a management consultant in the telecommunications and broadcasting industries. Dr. Wheen is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and is a Chartered Engineer. He is married with two children and lives near London.

Acknowledgments.- List of figures.- List of pictures.- List of tables.- About the author.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: The birth of an industry.- Chapter 2: The telegraph goes global.- Chapter 3: A gatecrasher spoils the party.- Chapter 4: Early telephone networks.- Chapter 5: Going digital.- Chapter 6: A bit of wet string.- Chapter 7: The last mile.- Chapter 8: Computers get chatty.- Chapter 9: The birth of the Internet.- Chapter 10: Life in cyberspace.- Chapter 11: The mobile revolution.- Chapter 12: When failure is not an option.- Chapter 13: What comes next?.- Appendices A - Q.- Notes.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.

Reihe/Serie	Popular Science
Reihe/Serie	Springer Praxis Books
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 302 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
ISBN-10	1-4419-6759-1 / 1441967591
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-6759-6 / 9781441967596
Zustand	Neuware