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From spark to satellite : [electronic resource] a history of radio communication / by Stanley Leinwoll ; edited by Fred Shunaman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scribner, 1979.Description: xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 068416048X :
  • 9780684160481
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384/.09
LOC classification:
  • TK5102.2 .L46 1979
Online resources:
Contents:
The father of wireless -- In the beginning -- In search of a detector -- Continuous waves -- The audion -- Early regulation -- A new radio era -- Progress and problems -- The birth of RCA -- Broadcasting begins -- Regulating the broadcasters -- The amateurs break through -- Radio wave propagation -- Rise of the shortwaves -- Television and FM -- Radar and semiconductors: stepping stones toward space -- Signals in space -- The hams in space -- Signals from the stars -- Lasers--future communications.
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Bibliography: p. 233-234.

Includes index.

The father of wireless -- In the beginning -- In search of a detector -- Continuous waves -- The audion -- Early regulation -- A new radio era -- Progress and problems -- The birth of RCA -- Broadcasting begins -- Regulating the broadcasters -- The amateurs break through -- Radio wave propagation -- Rise of the shortwaves -- Television and FM -- Radar and semiconductors: stepping stones toward space -- Signals in space -- The hams in space -- Signals from the stars -- Lasers--future communications.

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