Information Highways and Byways From the Telegraph to the 21st Century

chenpjh

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ix
xi
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part I Wiring Up the World
"The American Leonardo"
Expanding the Neighborhood
The Telegraph and the News
The Telegraph Goes to War
Transmitting the Human Voice
Universal Service
Establishing Telephone Service
Extending the Personal Presence
1
5
13
19
24
32
37
42
51
Part II Communication Without Wires 63
Chapter 9 Through the Ether 67
Chapter 10 The Wireless Goes to Sea 79
Chapter 11 World War I and Its Aftermath 85
Chapter 12 The Origins of Broadcasting 95
Chapter 13 Radio Broadcasting Captures the Nation 102
Chapter 14 Video Enters the Picture 108
Chapter 15 The Power of the Picture 117
Chapter 16 The Wireless Makes a Comeback 126
Chapter 17 Communication via Space 134
Part III The Communication/Computing Symbiosis 143
Chapter 18 The Computer Makes Its Appearances 146
Chapter 19 The Transistor 155
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20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Contents
The Chip
A"Computer on a Chip"
The Gregarious Computer
The Aftermath of the ARPANET
Speeding Up the Written Word
161
166
173
186
194
Part IV On the Way to the Next Century 205
Chapter 25 Digitizing the Telephone System 209
Chapter 26 Computers in the Network 221
Chapter 27 A Natural Monopoly? 226
Chapter 28 The End of Monopoly? 244
Chapter 29 Blurring Traditional Lines 250
Chapter 30 The Video Scene 263
Chapter 31 An Information Infrastructure
for the Twenty-First Century 272
Chapter 32 The Way to the New Infrastructure 283
Notes 291
Index 299
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chenpjh

这是一篇介绍通信发展史的蜚声常好的书籍。
因为文件太大，在一个压缩包中放不下，下载起来可能示方便。

chujn

下来看看,谢谢.

thaiqi

顶~~~