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Author Hegedus, Alannah.

Title Bleeps and blips to rocket ships : great inventions in communications / Alannah Hegedus & Kaitlin Rainey ; illustrated by Bill Slavin.

Publication Info. Toronto : Tundra Books, [2001]
©2001

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 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Children's Department  J 609.71 HEG    Check Shelf
Description 88 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Fenerty and the invention of newsprint -- Photograph gets published: Desbarats and leggo invent the halftone -- Taking pictures in a circle: Connon and the panoramic camera -- Transatlantic telegraph cable joins the old word and the new -- Sending sound across wires by telephone -- Wireless finds a voice: Fessenden and the modern radio -- Just tune in : Rogers's batteryless radio -- Sending pictures through the air by wirephoto -- Sending messages through space by satellite -- Communication at the speed of light.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.6 6.0 51709.
Subject Inventions -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Communication -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Telecommunication -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inventors -- Canada -- Juvenile literature.
Telecommunication -- History.
Inventors.
Added Author Slavin, Bill.
Rainey, Kaitlin.
ISBN 0887764525: $19.99
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