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**********From the Original Arno Press Collection**********
In one volume - the development of
European telephone networks near the turn-of-the-century plus a comparative study fifteen
years later
Bennett, A. R.
THE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS OF THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE.
1895; and
Webb, Herbert Laws
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELEPHONE IN EUROPE. 1910
The first half of the 1890s marked a period of rapid growth in the development
and adoption of telephone service throughout Europe. Together with technical
considerations, Europeans had to decide whether their telephone networks were to be left
to private entrepreneurs, private monopolies, or to be placed under government ownership.
First published in 1895, A. R. Benriett's work surveys the expansion and ownership of
telephone systems in Europe. The author provides interesting background material on the
problems encountered during the initial stages of the practical application of a means of
rapid communication. H. L. Webb supplements Bennett's survey with a discussion of
telephone systems fifteen years later. With emphasis upon the telephone in Great Britain,
Webb expands his comparative study to include developments all over Europe and the Near
East. 1895 and 1910 are years that marked the end of significant periods in the growth of
the international telephone service. These two studies provide an unusual and important
sumniation of the great technological advances in telephone communications before the
outbreak of World War I.
LC 74-4666 London,1895,1910
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The official governmental record of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War
I when telegraph, telephone and radio were first used effectively in military operations
Chief
Signal Officer, U.
S. Signal Corps
REPORT OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER: 1919
World War I marked the first time that the U.S. Army Signal Corps made combined
use of telegraph, telephone and radio, in addition to motion pictures, photography and
other new technologies. These documents of the 66th Congress provide an extensively
detailed and illustrated discussion of all aspects of the development of the modern Signal
Corps, its operations during the European campaign, how it developed its own technologies,
and many examples of actual battlefield maneuvers employing telecommunications. Although
technically a part of the annual report for the fiscal year 1919, General Squiers' report
traces the entire 1917-1919 period of American involvement in the Great War and its
immediate aftermath as it related to the Signal Corps.
LC 75-4671 Washington, D.C., 1920
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A unique, detailed and illuminating
account of the experiments and role in the early stages of television of Philo T.
Farnsworth
Everson, George
THE STORY OF TELEVISION: The Life of Philo T. Farnsworth
Philo T. Farnsworth (1907-1971), a television pioneer, experimented in the
1920s to develop the image dissector system that was eventually perfected to the degree
that RCA was forced to purchase rights to Farnsworth's patents. This was the first time
RCA was the purchaser instead of the seller of such rights. George Everson, one of
Farnsworth's financial backers, has written the only detailed biography of one of the last
of the individual inventors to succeed in an age of business-dominated research.
LC 74-4677 New York, 1949
ISBN: 0405060424 illus. $26.95
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Experimentation with pre-electronic
television systems described in this biography of a British television pioneer
Tiltman, Ronald F.
BAIRD OF TELEVISION: The Life Story of John Logie
Baird
Ronald Tiltman has written a detailed contemporary biography of John Logie
Baird, one of Britain's most illustrious early experimenters with mechanical television.
The author concentrates on the inventor's activities in the field during the 1924-33
period. By utilizing illustrations, Tiltman provides an interesting and important view of
pre-electronic systems as developed by their chief proponent.
LC 74-4697 London,1933
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In one volume--three valuable
first-person documents on early telegraphy by
one of Morse's most important backers and partners during the 1830s and 1840s
An Original
Anthology
EYEWITNESS TO EARLY AMERICAN TELEGRAPHY
A.) Vail, Alfred
THE AMERICAN ELECTRO MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH: With the Reports of Congress, and a Description
of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity or Galvanism. Philadelphia, 1845
B.) Vail, Alfred
DESCRIPTION OF THE AMERICAN ELECTRO MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH: Now in Operation Between the
Cities of Washington and Baltimore. Washington, D.C., 1845
C.) Vail, J. Cummings
EARLY HISTORY OF THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC
TELEGRAPH FROM LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF ALFRED VAIL. New York, 1914
Incorporating a book and two reports, this anthology offers an invaluable primary source
of information on the beginnings of American telegraphy. Vail's book relates the history
of telegraphy to 1845 while the initial report describes the firs American telegraph
service. The second report, compiled by Vail's son, presents excerpts from Vail's diaries
and letter relating to the telegraph.
LC 74-4698 New York, 197
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This "Blue Book" remains the
best available statement of the Federal Communications Commission's thinking on radio
station programming standards
Federal
Communications Commission
PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY OF BROADCAST
LICENSEES
Popularly known as the "Blue Book" because of its original paper
cover, this now classic publication includes information of the legal basis for FCC
regulation. It provides examples of
programming practices, and discusses a survey of several years of the financial earnings
of broadcasting that indicate the ways in which stations might be able to schedule a
greater number of public service programs. The "Blue Book" continues to provide
the clearest presentation of the Federal Communications Commission's attitudes about the
programming standards of broadcasting stations.
LC 74-5225 Washington, D.C., 1946
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Early government positions on the
development of and patent control by the
radio industry, including broadcasting and international communications
Federal Trade
Commission
REPORT OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ON THE RADIO
INDUSTRY: In Response to House Resolution 548, 67th Congress, Fourth Session, December
1, 1923
A major source of key documents on the critical early development of wireless
communication and broadcasting, this study deals in detail with the manufacture and sale
of radio apparatus and international traffic arrangements. It includes the major
contracts, patent pooling arrangements and financial data of the key firms of the early
1920s.
LC 74-4680 Washington, D.C., 1924
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A useful and compact survey of radio
experimentation that spans 50 years
McNicol, Donald
RADIO'S CONQUEST OF SPACE: The Experimental Rise in
Radio Communication
Written by a man who participated
in many of the important events of which he writes, Radio's Conquest of Space is a
detailed, fully documented, and scholarly treatment of the technical development of
wireless and radio. Starting with the early theories of telegraphy, the author discusses
wireless experimentation in the late 19th century, later developments in transmission and
reception methods, vacuum tube technology, and early commercial broadcasting. Name and
subject indexes are included in this handy and most useful volume.
LC 74-4689 New York and London, 1946
ISBN: 0405060521 illus. $31.95
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An engineer and designer of cable
equipment writes a vivid account of the early years of cable laying
Smith, Willoughby
THE RISE AND EXTENSION OF SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHY
Smith's autobiographical book covers his world-wide experiences in the
dangerous and exciting occupation of laying
cable for intercontinental telegraph communications during the mid-19th century. Among the
fascinating and vivid accounts of what those early expeditions were like, the author tells
about the 1865-66 missions with the Great Eastern that resulted in the successful link-up
of the Atlantic cable, one of the greatest technological achievements of that century. The
Rise and Extension of Submarine Telegraphy is, at the same time, a useful historical
reference and a thrilling adventure story.
LC 74-4695 London,1891
ISBN: 0405060580 illus. $35.95
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Abramson,
Albert
ELECTRONIC MOTION PICTURES: A History of the
Television Camera
A veteran CBS television engineer, Albert Abramson has written an invaluable,
comprehensive and readable technical history of electronic television including
information on the equipment and techniques employed in the field. Electronic Motion
Pictures is an especially significant work because of the author's unrivalled emphasis
upon the development of the TV camera. It begins with a brief discussion of the mechanical
predecessor systems, and then considers the early work of Zworykin and others in the 20s
and 30s. Additional topics include: an analysis of the relationship between early
television and film technologies; television advances in the 40s; and the postwar
introduction of commercial television including both black and white and color systems.
Also heavily emphasized are the televising of motion pictures and the changes in the TV
camera itself. Well documented and clearly written, Electronic Motion Pictures constitutes
an indispensable reference to the subject.
LC 74-4663 Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1955
ISBN: 0405060319 illus $26.95
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5/30/2000
A definitive history of the earliest
telegraph systems preceding the institution of the Morse system as a world standard
Fahie, John J.
A HISTORY OF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHY TO THE YEAR 1837: Chiefly Compiled from Original Sources and
Hitherto Unpublished Documents
Divided into sections covering various types of telegraph and famous for having
thrown light upon the pioneering work of Edward Davy, this survey of the earliest
telegraph systems covers the developments through the commercial patents granted in
England to Cooke and Wheatstone before the internationalization of the Morse system. It is
the most exhaustive record available of early telegraph pioneers and their inventions, as
well as being the first work of an accomplished electrical communications historian. Arno
reprinted the sequel in the 1971 History of Broadcasting series. Extremely thorough, with
many documents reprinted or extracted this is an essential reference work.
LC 74-4675 London,1884
ISBN: 0405060440 illus. $42.95
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6/15/2000
A panoramic, yet detailed perspective
of the Civil War by telegraphers on both sides of the battle lines
Plum, William
Rattle
THE MlLITARY TELEGRAPH DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN THE
UNITED STATES, With an Exposition of Ancient and Modern Means of Communication, and of
the Federal and Confederate Cipher Systems; Also a Running Account of the War Between the
States. Volumes One and Two.
With an Introduction by Paul J. Scheips.
The Civil War as seen and reported by the telegraphers in both the Northern and
Southern armies is the subject of this remarkably detailed study. The role of the
telegraph in various areas and campaigns of the war and how it affected the outcome of
military struggles are discussed against a background of other important factors. These
include system design, operators. salaries and operating conditions, the struggle to
control the communications medium, experiences of captured telegraph operators and
information on military communications. An appendix to this interesting perspective on the
Civil War contains the annual reports of the Chief of Military Telegraph.
LC 74-4690 Chicago, 1882
ISBN: 040506053X $60.95 Available
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Insights into the early development of
radio telegraphy and telephony
Blake, George C
HISTORY OF RADIO TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY
There was a great deal of important technological experimentation and invention
before the widespread adoption of radio communication characterizing the 1920s. With
highly technical detail, supplemented by footnotes and a 50-page bibliography, Blake
chronologically arranges descriptions, patents, documentary extracts and illustrations,
thereby making the History of Radio Telegraphy and Telephony an extraordinary reference.
The author has included complete coverage of early wireless schemes and developments,
carrying his study through the period of rapid radio service expansion during the 1920s.
Although technically detailed and comprehensive, his book conveys all of.the excitement
and wonder of early radio experimentation.
LC 74-4667 illus. London,1928
ISBN: 0405060343 $39.95 Available
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One of the earliest studies of the telephone, the microphone and the phonograph
in a single volume
Du Moncel, Count
Theodore, A. L.
THE TELEPHONE, THE MICROPHONE AND THE PHONOGRAPH
The first English edition of a
work originally published in Paris in 1878, this book is an important early contemporary
account of the gestation of three important and interrelated inventions. Heavily
documented and supported by valuable engraved illustrations, most of Count Du Moncels work
is devoted to telephones. He discusses telephone development and competing systems as well
as describing the experimentation taking place during the period of Bell's 1876 patent
application. Briefer attention is given to the initial stages of microphone technology and
information is included about Edison's phonograph.
LC 74-4673 New York, 1879
ISBN: 0405060394 $25.95 Available
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One of the greatest technological
achievements of the 19th century - underwater cable laying - is vividly described in this
rare and lavishly illustrated volume
Bright, Charles
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS: Their History, Construction
and Working
In 1850 a submarine cable was laid between England and France. After an initial
failure in 1857 and several more defeats during the early 1860s, the first completely
successful laying of a telecommunication cable between Valentia, Ireland and Heart's
Content Bay in Newfoundland took place in 1866. This constituted one of the greatest and
most important scientific achievements in an age of many rapid and far-reaching
technological advancements. Charles Bright was the chief engineer of the early Atlantic
cable-laying firms. His professional account of the early history of failure and eventual
triumph in this endeavor covers all aspects of the tremendously complex project. The
author's comprehensive and detailed coverage is strengthened by a profusion of
contemporary engravings.
LC 74-4669 London,1898
ISBN: 0405060351 $63.95 Available
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An unusual volume offering a detailed
contemporary history of the importance of the telegraph during the American Civil War
Brown, J. Willard
THE SIGNAL CORPS, U.S.A. IN THE WAR OF THE
REBELLION
With an Introduction by Paul J.
Scheips.
When read with Plum's extensive discussion, The Military Telegraph During the
Civil War in the United States, also included in this collection, Willard's detailed
history provides a complete picture of the military's use of telegraphy during the Civil
War years. Based upon in-depth research and illustrated with engravings, photos and maps,
Brown's work traces the campaigns of the war and the significance of the signalling
techniques employed during battle. The author, who advanced from private to officer in the
Signal Corps during the war, had access to official records in writing this comprehensive
survey, a project lasting more than 8 years.
LC 74-4670 Boston, 1896
ISBN: 040506036X $89.95 Available
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A.T. & T. tried to suppress this
devastating attack on the Bell interests when it was first published.
Danielian, Nooba
R.
A. T.& T.: The Story of Industrial Conquest
Upon its publication in 1939, the New Republic favorably reviewed A. T. &
T. : The Story of Industrial Conquest, pointing out that "it bears the unmistakable
marks of a skilled hand and an inquiring mind ... a penetrating analysis that no one
interested in American economics can afford to miss." The New York Times considered
the book "a major contribution to the education of social scientists and public
officials who are seriously concerned with practical problems or regulating
monopolies," and the New Yorker said that it "may turn out to be a
classic." American Telephone and Telegraph was not in the least enthusiastic about
this heavily documented account of the company's technical and patent operations and
several decades of its financial and political maneuvers - A. T. & T. promptly
purchased and destroyed whatever copies it could, and issued a book-length rebuttal two
years later. N. R. Danielian's book, however, remains one of the most penetrating and
revealing muckraking publications of the century.
LC 74-4672 New York, 1939
ISBN: 0405060386 $33.95 Available
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A unique study of the early
developments in electronic television
Eckhardt, George
H.
ELECTRONIC TELEVISION
In 1939 mechanical systems in public communications were almost exclusively in
use, yet pioneers were experimenting with electronic television. George Eckhardt has
written an easily understood yet technically comprehensive work describing the operations
of the Farnsworth and RCA laboratories and containing fascinating illustrations of the
first television stations and receivers used in television experimentation during the
mid-1930s. Upon publication of this work, New Technical
Books reported: "The art of writing on highly technical subjects in a non-technical light is extremely difficult and the author
is to be given credit for a great accomplishment."
LC 74-4674 Chicago, 1936
ISBN: 0405060408 $18.95 Available
10/01/2000
Still the most detailed biography of
one of the giants in the history of telecommunications
Prime, Samuel
Irenaeus
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL F. B. Morse, L.L.D., Inventor of
the Electro-Magnetic Recording Telegraph
There have been many biographies written and published about the life of this great inventor, yet Prime's detailed study is
still the most comprehensive and important of all. His book is equally valuable because it
offers a contemporary viewpoint of Morse and because it extensively utilizes extracts and
diagrams from Morse's and other's patents. There is no greater tribute to the importance
of this work as a classic reference than the fact that later works continue to cite it
extensively. Prime traces Morse's life from his early years and original art career
through his trials and tribulations with the innovation of the prototype telegraph system.
Accurate and filled with important observations and information, The Life of Samuel F. B.
Morse is a classic.
LC 74-4691 New York, 1875
ISBN: 0405060548 illus. $60.95
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A classic presentation of the history of the telegraph and the major
telegraph firms through the end of the 1870s
Reid, James D.
THE TELEGRAPH IN AMERICA: Its Founders, Promoters
and Noted Men
Here is an often cited panoramic history of the telegraph which discusses the
principal telegraph firms and the key persons within them. Throughout his work, Reid
stresses the business and economic aspects of marketing this remarkable scientific
invention. The importance of The Telegraph in America as a classic reference in the field
is under-scored by the fact that the author was active in telegraphy throughout the period
he discusses. He thus had a personal knowledge of persons and events under examination.
LC 74-4693 New York, 1879
ISBN: 0405060564 illus. $69.95
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10/01/2000
A revealing collection of official
United States Government reports that offer an overview of the radio broadcasting industry
in the 1930s and 1940s
An Original
Anthology
SPECIAL REPORTS ON AMERICAN BROADCASTING: 1932-1947
A.) Federal Radio Commission
COMMERCIAL RADIO ADVERTISING (Reprinted from 72nd Congress, lst Session, Senate Document
No. 137), Washington, D. C., 1932
B.)Engineering Dept., Federal Communications
Commission REPORT ON SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DATA PURSUANT TO THE INFORMAL HEARING ON
BROADCASTING, Docket 4063, Beginning October 5, 1936 Washington, D. C., 1938
C.)Federal Communications Commission REPORT ON
CHAIN BROADCASTING. Washington, D. C., May, 1941
D.)Federal Communications Commission AN
ECONOMIC STUDY OF STANDARD BROADCASTING. Washington D.C., October 1947
This significant anthology contains four important documents which offer the reader an
unusual overview of the radio broadcasting industry during its heyday. First, there is a
letter from the FRC Chairman to the Senate answering questions on commercial and
educational AM broadcasting. The second document contains a detailed analysis of
broadcasting in the mid-1930s just before the inception of FM and television competition.
The next offering is the report of a two-year investigation of the role, history and
operations of CBS, NBC. and Mutual up to 1940. The final section contains a detailed
analysis of changes in American broadcasting in the post-war years of expansion when radio
had to meet the challenge of
FM and television. Because of the official nature of the documents in
this anthology which contains a wealth of statistical data, Special Reports on American
Broadcasting, 1932-1947 constitutes a vital addition to any library.
LC 74-4682 New York, 1974
ISBN: 0405060599 $57.95 Available
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Bell,
Alexander Graham
THE BELL TELEPHONE: The Deposition of Alexander
Graham Bell in the Suit by the United States to Annul the Bell Patents
No other source could ever equal Bell's personal and detailed description of
the steps leading to his remarkable invention. This description is included in Bell's
testimony before various courts in the years 1879, 1883 and 1887 when his exclusive
patents rights were being questioned by the United States Government. In preparing his
defense, Bell provided important insights into the process of his own experimentation
leading to the first crude telephone. In his introduction, Charles H. Swan describes
Bell's testimony as ". . . the most detailed and best arranged statement of his
telephone work."
LC 74-4665 Boston, 1908
ISBN: 0405060327 $36.95 Available
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A basic reference to the business,
labor, financial, production and advertising trends in radio up to the mid-1930s.
Eoyang, Thomas T
AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF THE RADIO INDUSTRY IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Originally a Columbia University Ph. D. dissertation, Thomas Eoyang's volume examines the technical aspects of radio,
the economics of radio manufacturing (receivers and tubes), and the economics of the radio
broadcasting industry up to the mid-1930s. This
important reference utilizes many tables and charts to supplement a well-documented text.
LC 74-4675 New York, 1936
ISBN: 0405060416 $20.95 Available
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The only major U.S. Government
investigation of the telephone industry (1939) -an exhaustive ananlysis of A.T. & T.,
Western Electric and their corporate and business practices
Federal
Communications Commission
INVESTIGATION OF THE TELEPHONE INDUSTRY IN THE
UNITED STATES: Report of the Federal Communications Commission on the Investigation of
the Telephone Industry in the United States
This comprehensive final report results from the only major United States
Government investigation of the telephone industry. Its lengthier first part consists of
18 chapters filled with data in tabular and text form examining management and control,
licensing, patents, research, engineering and standardization, rates, pricing and other
facets of the Bell system. The second part reviews legal problems of telephone control and
suggests legislative measures. This report remains essential to an understanding of the
history and growth of the Bell system into one of America's major industrial giants.
LC 74-4679 Washington, D.C.,1939
ISBN: 0405060459 foldout $50.95
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Still the definitive biography of a
critically important American pioneer radio inventor-innovator
Fessenden, Helen
M.
FESSENDEN: Builder
of Tomorrows
Based on her husband's unfinished autobiography and her own letters, Helen
Fessenden wrote what remains the definitive biography of one of America's most eminent
radio pioneers, responsible for the two-way radio, the wireless telephone, the sonic depth
finder and the submarine telephone. Using heavy documentation, she traces Fessenden's life
as a series of confrontations and crises interspersed with several important achievements:
the alternator principle, the first broadcast station (1906), and heterodyne theory. When
it was published in 1940, The New York Times called Fessenden: Builder of
Tomorrows, "a valuable and entertaining biography." Books
stated that this biography "should be read by all who realize that creative ideas are
the only hope of the nation and the race."
LC 74-4681` New York, 1940
ISBN: 0405060475 illus. $26.95
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The only comprehensive and detailed
history of shipboard radio now available
Hancock, Harry E.
WIRELESS AT SEA: The First Fifty Years
Hancock's study covers the history of shipboard radio from its earliest stages
of development through the Marconi experiments and encompassing the modern post-war
applications of radar and other technologies. A company-sponsored publication, this book
stresses Marconi's vital role in the perfection of the wireless with emphasis on technical
developments. It does not, however, ignore the impact of shipboard radio on commerce and
politics.
LC 74-4683 Chelmsford, England, 1950
ISBN: 0405060483 illus. $28.95
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One of the best available collective
biographies of major pioneers in wireless experimentation
Hawks, Ellison
PIONEERS OF WIRELESS
Here are detailed discussions of leading wireless experimenters, theorists and innovators
including: William Gilbert, Galvani, Arago,
Michael Faraday, the Hightons, Alexander Graham Bell, J. W. Wilkins, T. A. Edison, D. E.
Hughes, Clerk-Maxwell, Marconi, Fleming, Fessenden, Duddell and many more. The collection
is well documented, referenced and illustrated.
LC 74-4685 London,1927
ISBN: 0405060491 illus. $29.95
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One of the earliest comprehensive
treatments of the special economic and legal problems of the telegraph, telephone and
radio media
Herring, James M,
and Gerald C. Gross
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Economics and Regulation
Written by an economist and a
former member of the FCC, this work is extremely valuable today because of its detailed
coverage of the organization and development of many key precepts still considered basic
to the economic regulation of the electronic media. The authors write extensively about
the interrelationship of economic and regulatory aspects of public policy and provide an
historical overview as well as a close look at regulatory machinery and its functions in
the 1930s. Their book is well documented and includes appendices with several key
legislative acts and treaties.
LC 74-4686 New York and London, 1936
ISBN: 0405060505 $38.95
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01/01/2001
This seminal pioneer study helped to
inspire both professional and public interest in wireless telegraphy
Lodge, Oliver J.
SIGNALLING THROUGH SPACE WITHOUT WIRES: Being a
Description of the Work of Hertz and His Successors. Third Edition
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, one of the most brilliant experimentalists and physicists in
the history of science, in 1888 announced to the world his epoch-making discovery of
electromagnetic waves. This interesting study is derived primarily from an illustrated
lecture given by the author in 1894 in London, detailing the work of Heinrich Hertz and
his early successors. The rest of the volume discusses the work of Branley, Popoff, Slaby,
Marconi and Thompson and concentrates
on the development and use of the coherer principle and
photo-electric phenomenon. Signalling Through Space Without Wires proved to be
instrumental in spreading interest in wireless telegraphy and wireless experimentation
throughout the world.
LC 74-4688 London, [1900]
ISBN: 0405060513 illus. $17.95
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01/01/2001
A solid analytical study of the radio
industry - just prior to federal regulations and the founding of the giant broadcast
organizations
THE RADIO INDUSTRY: The Story of Its Development
By Leaders of the
Radio Industry
Introduced by David Sarnoff, the 11 lectures in this collection were originally
delivered before a business policy course at the Harvard Graduate School of Business
Administration. The Radio Industry reviews the history of radio, both technically and
economically, and focuses upon legal problems, the first year of the NBC network, radio
advertising, and the merchandising of radio receivers. The fact that radio industry
leaders of the era gave the lectures at a time when the large network systems were being
organized and the Federal Government was moving to control them makes this volume a
particularly interesting reference.
LC 74-4687 Chicago and New York, 1928
ISBN: 0405060556 illus. $25.95
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01/01/2001
The standard work on the successful
implementation of the Bell telephone and the corporate research and business structure
built upon it
Rhodes, Frederick
Leland
BEGINNINGS OF TELEPHONY
With a Foreword by General John J. Carty
No other work on the subject has superceded this volume in importance. Written
with the full cooperation of the Bell interests, and solidly based upon primary documents,
Beginnings of Telephony concentrates on the technical rather than business aspects of
telephony and carries the study to the middle 1890s. Detailing the inception of the
telephone, microphone transmitter, telephone cable, first underground cables, loaded
lines, telephone switchboards and long-distance lines, this standard reference provides a
solid insight into the formative decades of the telephone.
LC 74-4694 New York and London, 1929
ISBN: 0405060572 illus. $28.95
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01/01/2001
A classic biographical work in defense
of Philipp Reis who claimed to have invented the telephone more than 16 years before Bell
Thompson, Silvanus
P
PHILIPP REIS: Inventor of the Telephone; A
Biographical Sketch
Philipp Reis was one of the better
known claimants to the title eventually granted to Alexander Graham Bell. This biography
of Reis includes a discussion of Reis' telephone invention, details of his claims to prior
completion of his experiments, and many
contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts. Thompson provides a great deal of data in
support of Reis' claim that he invented the telephone 16 years before Bell. His major
contention is that
the successful implementation of the telephone was actually the result of the scientific
achievements of many people at different times. This provocative and informative biography
constitutes a valuable early document in the field.
LC 74-4696 London,1883
ISBN: 0405060602 $18.95
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01/01/2001
The only detailed biography of the inventor of the microphone
Wile,
Frederic William
EMILE BERLINER: Maker of the Microphone
Emile
Berliner was one of the "greats" in the history of the development of
telecommunications. Perhaps best known for his work with the microphone, he also
contributed much to the development of the radio and the phonograph - especially the disc
record rather than the prevailing Edison-developed cylinder. In writing this unique
biography, the author has made full use of references and extracts from contemporary
documents and his text clearly describes complicated technical issues and court
litigation. Wile is also successful in recreating the dramatic life of this prolific
scientist. The New York Times reported that "Mr. Wile tells the interesting and
inspiring story with full appreciation of its dramatic features."
LC 74-4699 Indianapolis, 1926
ISBN: 0405060629 illus. $31.95
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