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Wireless : from Marconi's black-box to the audion / Sungook Hong.
| Author/creator | Hong, Sungook |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001. |
| Description | xiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology Transformations (M.I.T. Press) ^A468418 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001030636 |
| ISBN | 0262082985 (hc. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | TK6547 .H66 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |