Wireless: From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262082985 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book concludes with a discussion of de Forest's Audion and the shift from wireless telegraphy to radio.. Drawing on previously untapped archival evidence and recent work in the history and sociology of science and technology, it examines the substance and context of both experimental and theoretical aspects of engineering and scientific practices in the first years of this technology. It offers new insights into the relationship between Marconi and his scientific advisor, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming (inventor of the vacuum tube). 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. It includes the full story of the infamous 1903 incident in which Marconi's opponent Nevil Maskelyne interfered with Fleming's public demonstration of Marconi's syntonic (tuning) system at the Royal Institution by sending derogatory messages from his own transmitter. Fifteen years after Marconi's invention, wireless had become an essential means of communication, as well as a hobby for many.This book offers a new perspe
Sungook Hong is Associate Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.
"Where radio came from" according to Harvey M. Solomon. This book is an excellent history of important events associated with the early scientific understanding of electromagnetic radiation and with the technical development of wireless communication. It answers many questions which have been raised concerning the roles of individuals who participated in critical events associated with the transition from electrics to electronics. Activities whic. Wireless: Marconi Michael Sitton Another great book for anyone to read that is interested in the beginnings of wireless. The author,Sungook Hong has produced another top rated book. Very well researched and presented in a manner of which you can hardly put it down until you have finished it. I highly recommend this book to any one, young or old. You will not regret buying this book.
Bernard Carlson, Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia) . (Business History Review)This is a carefully drawn and well-written study that sheds new light on an old but central story. It is an important and fascinating story, and Hong tells it very well indeed. (Communications Booknotes Quarterly)With clarity and precision, Sungook Hong shows how theoretical science and practical engineering came together in the 1890s to produce wireless telegraphy, a technology that now pervades the modern world. Historians of science and technology will regard this book as the definitive work on the scientific underpinnings and technological development of wireless in its first fi