Wireless: From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion
(Part of the Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series)
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A new look at the early history of wireless communication. By 1897 Guglielmo Marconi had transformed James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves into a workable wireless telegraphy system, and by 1907 Lee de Forest had invented the Audion, a feedback amplifier and oscillator that opened the way to practical radio transmission. Fifteen years after Marconi's invention, wireless had become an essential means of communication, as well...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262514192
ISBN13:9780262514194
Release Date:January 2010
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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