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History of communication technology from ancient times through the early 20th century.

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Harper & Brothers
Language
English

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Subjects

Radio, Telegraph, Wireless Telegraph, Telephone

People

Guglielmo Marconi marchese (1874-1937), William Thomson Kelvin Baron (1824-1907), Alexander Graham Bell (1847-), John J. Carty (1861-), Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872)

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Masters of Space
March 30, 2006, IndyPublish.com
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Masters of Space (Large Print Edition): Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty
December 2, 2006, BiblioBazaar
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Cover of: Masters of Space
Masters of Space: Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty
December 2, 2006, BiblioBazaar
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Cover of: Masters Of Space
Masters Of Space
December 30, 2004, IndyPublish.com
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Masters of space.
1917, Harper & Brothers
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Masters of Space: Morse and the telegraph; Thompson and the cable; Bell and the telephone; Marconi and the wireless telegraph; Carty and the wireless telephone.
1917, Harper & Brothers
in English
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Cover of: Masters of space
Masters of space: Morse and the telegraph; Thompson and the cable; Bell and the telephone; Marconi and the wireless telegraph; Carty and the wireless telephone
1917, Harper & brothers
in English
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First Sentence

"It was very early in the history of the world that man began to feel the urgent need of communicating with man at a distance."

Table of Contents

I. Communication Among the Ancients
Page 13
II. Signals Past and Present
Page 23
III. Forerunners of the Telegraph
Page 36
IV. Inventions of Sir Charles Wheatstone
Page 45
V. The Achievement of Morse
Page 55
VI. "What Hath God Wrought?"
Page 75
VII. Development of the Telegraph System
Page 90
VIII. Telegraphing Beneath the Sea
Page 106
IX. The Pioneer Atlantic Cable
Page 117
X. A Successful Cable Attained
Page 130
XI. Alexander Graham Bell, The Youth
Page 140
XII. The Birth of the Telephone
Page 151
XIII. The Telephone at the Centennial
Page 165
XIV. Improvement and Expansion
Page 176
XV. Telegraphing Without Wires
Page 188
XVI. An Italian Boy's Work
Page 199
XVII. WIreless Telegraphy Established
Page 209
XVIII. The Wireless Serves the World
Page 220
XIX. Speaking Across the Continent
Page 231
XX. Telephoning Through Space
Page 250
Appendix A.
Page 264
Appendix B.
Page 282
Index.
Page 299

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"It was very early in the history of the world that man began to feel the urgent need of communicating with man at a distance."

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