Communications : An International History of the Formative Years

Acknowledgements vii Preface ix Abbreviations xi 1 Communication among the ancients 1(28) 2 Semaphore signalling 29(28) 3 The development of electric telegraphy from c. 1750-1850 57(36) 4 Electric telegraphy - commercial and social considerations 93(32) 5 Submarine telegraphy 125(40) 6 The telephone 165(26) 7 Optical communications 191(16) 8 Images by wire, picture telegraphy (1843-c. 1900) 207(20) 9 Distant vision (c. 1880-1908) 227(26) 10 The early wireless pioneers 253(28) 11 Early experimental wireless telegraphy (1895-1898) 281(32) 12 Other wireless developments 313(30) 13 Maritime wireless telegraphy 343(30) 14 Point-to-point communications 373(14) 15 Television development, pre-1914 387(14) 16 The Great War years, 1914-1918 401(22) 17 The birth of sound broadcasting 423(28) 18 Some important developments in the 1920's 451(28) 19 The rise and fall of low definition television, c. 1920-c. 1930 479(32) 20 The birth of high definition television 511(30) 21 EMI and high definition television 541(34) 22 The emergence of new technologies 575(28) 23 Epilogue 603(10) Appendices 613(12) Bibliography 625(4) Index 629