
Communications and Broadcasting
From Wired Words to Wireless Web
Harry Henderson(Author)
Facts On File Inc (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2006
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-8160-5748-1 (ISBN)
Description
Discover the behind-the-scenes stories of the inventors and inventions that primed the world for our current communications, media, and information explosion. ""Communications and Broadcasting, Revised Edition"" sets the scene with a look at the development and interconnection of scientific ideas: electromagnetism, leading to the telegraph and telephone; Maxwell's wave theory, leading to radio and television; and communications and information theory, from Claude Shannon to the World Wide Web and beyond. Then there are engaging portraits of the inventors themselves - visionaries who were part scientist, part engineer, and part entrepreneur. Students will find out how they made modern communications possible, and how they repeatedly recast its media.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 12 to 17 years
Illustrations
17 black-&-white photographs & 23 line illustrations, chapter-specific chronologies, general chronology, further reading, glossary, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8160-5748-1 (9780816057481)
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Harry Henderson
Communications and Broadcasting
Book
07/1997
Facts On File Inc
€39.75
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Person
Harry Henderson is an educational and technical editor and writer in the areas of mathematics and computer science. He is the author of Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Global Terrorism, Revised Edition, Modern Mathematicians, and Nuclear Physics.