Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
Contents
Hertzian optics and wireless telegraphy -- Inventing the invention of wireless telegraphy : Marconi versus Lodge -- Grafting power technology onto wireless telegraphy : Marconi and Fleming on transatlantic signaling -- Tuning, jamming, and the Maskelyne affair -- Transforming an effect into an artifact : the thermionic valve -- The audion and the continuous wave -- Epilogue : The making of the radio age -- Appendix : Electronic theory and the "good earth" in wireless telegraphy.