Syntony and Spark (eBook)

The Origins of Radio

Hugh G.J. Aitken (Autor)

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2014
366 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5788-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers a readable narrative of the science and technology of early radio combined with sociological and economic analysis of how radio changed our lives.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Adapt • alternating current • Alternator • Amos Dolbear • Ampere • Analogy • Applied Science • basic research • Calculation • capacitance • capacitor • Circuit Design • Citizens band radio • Coherer • detection • Detector (radio) • Dipole antenna • Direct coupling • Electrical Engineering • Electrical reactance • electric charge • electricity • Electromagnetic field • Electromagnetic radiation • electromagnetism • Emil Wolf • Engineering • Experimentum crucis • Explanation • Farad • Fellow of the Royal Society • Filing (metalworking) • FM broadcasting • George Francis FitzGerald • Guglielmo Marconi • Heat • Heinrich Hertz • Hermann von Helmholtz • High Frequency • Impossibility • Inception • Inductance • Induction coil • Insulator (electricity) • Interferometry • Invention of radio • James Clerk Maxwell • John Stone Stone • Joseph Fourier • Joseph Henry • Joseph Larmor • J. P. Guilford • Lead–acid battery • Leyden jar • lightning rod • Low frequency • Magnetic detector • Marconi Company • Mature technology • Maxwell's equations • Measurement • morse code • national security • normal science • Oliver Lodge • physicist • Pieter van Musschenbroek • radiation resistance • Radio Frequency • radio spectrum • Radio Wave • resonance • result • Science • Scientific American • Scientific Revolution • Scientist • Sender • Silvanus P. Thompson • Sine Wave • Single-sideband modulation • Spark gap • Speed of Light • Technology • Telecommunication • Telegraphy • Television • Thomas Edison • Thomas Kuhn • Transformer • Transmission Line • Transmitter • Tuning fork • Variable capacitor • Very High Frequency • Vibration • Waveguide • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin • Wimshurst machine • Wireless Telegraphy
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5788-0 / 1400857880
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5788-3 / 9781400857883