Wireless : from Marconi's black-box to the audion /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=74698 |
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.