Making Connections
Communication Through the Ages
Published on 25. February 2002
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-8108-4233-5 (ISBN)
Description
Meadow takes us on a tour of communication technologies across time. The alphabet and moveable type printing, cave drawings and carrier pigeons, telephones, television and, of course, the Internet: in each case, Meadow shows how these (and other devices) are connected to each other, even as they serve to make connections between people.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index, illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8108-4233-5 (9780810842335)
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Person
Charles Meadow is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto and is the author of twelve books (including Ink into Bits, ISBN 0-8108-3508-8, 1998, Scarecrow Press) and many encyclopedia articles and papers in professional journals. He has worked at a number of prominent government agencies and multinational corporations including the General Electric, IBM, and the U.S. Office of Science and Technology.
Content
List of Illustrations; Preface; Part 1: The Basics of Communications; 1 Background; Part 2: Telecommunication Before Steam and Electricity; 2 Spoken Language; 3 Writing and Printing; 4 Visual Signalling; 5 Transportation as Communication-1; Part 3: Steam, Electricity, and Internal Combustion; 6 Transportation as Communication-2; 7 Telegraph; 8 Telephone; Part 4: Electronics; 9 Radio; 10 Television; 11 Communication Satellites; 12 The Internet and the Information Highway; Part 5: Looking Backward and Forward; 13 Summation and Projection; 14 One Hundred Dates to Remember; Bibliography; Index; About the Author;