Innovation and the Communications Revolution:

Abstract

The book reviews the development of the following: telephone; cables; thermionic valves; telegraph-telephone frequency-division multiplex transmission; radiocommunication; sound radio broadcasting; television broadcasting; multi-channel telephony coaxial cable systems; the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable; microwave radio-relays; inventions of the transistor and the microchip; information theory; pulse code modulation; digital techniques; electromechanical and computer-controlled electronic exchange switching systems; satellite communication; long-distance waveguide systems; optical fibre communication systems; visual telecommunication systems; information technology and services; the Internet; the World Wide Web; and mobile radio services.