| Description |
xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index. |
| Contents |
Basics of Communication -- What Is Information? -- What Is a Medium? -- How Is Information Represented? -- Was McLuhan Right--Is the Medium the Message? -- Telecommunication before Steam and Electricity -- Spoken Language and Sound Transmission -- Spoken Language -- Sound-Based Technology -- Writing and Printing -- Pictures and Pictorial Writing -- Alphabet -- Other Languages -- Recording Media -- Tools of Writing -- Photography -- Effect of Writing on Civilization -- Visual Signaling -- Fire and Smoke -- Flags, Semaphores, and Body Movements -- Transportation as Communication--1 -- Animals and Roads -- Muscle-Powered and Sailing Ships -- Steam, Internal Combustion, and Electricity -- Transportation as Communication--2 -- Steam Power -- Wingless Aircraft -- Internal Combustion -- Telegraph -- Beginnings -- Telegraphs -- Practical and Impractical -- How It Works -- Telegraphy Becomes a Business -- Crossing the Oceans -- Industry Goes Downhill -- Telephone -- In the Beginning Was the Word -- Sound and Electricity -- How the Telephone Works -- Telephone as a Business -- New Developments -- Electronics -- Radio -- More Physics -- Wireless Telegraphy -- Radar -- Radio Broadcasting -- Social Effects of Radio Broadcasting -- Newer Technologies -- Television -- Technicalities -- The Developers -- Broadcasting -- New Developments in Television -- Impact -- Communication Satellites -- Nature of the Bird -- History -- Internet and the Information Highway -- Cost -- Looking Backward and Forward -- Technologies that accompanied major change -- Coming changes -- Review of principles that do not change -- One hundred dates to remember. |
| Summary |
Meadow takes us on a Cook's tour of communication technologies across time -- the alphabet and moveable type printing, cave drawings and carrier pigeons, telephones, television and, of course, the Internet. In each case, Meadow shows how these (and other devices) are connected to each other, even as they serve to make connections between people. Part One discusses the basics of communications, while Part Two delves into telecommunications before the days of steam and electricity. Part Three offers insight into steam, electricity, and internal combustion energy and how they revolutionized society. |
| Subject |
Communication -- History.
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Communication. (OCoLC)fst00869952
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Communicatie.
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Kommunikation (DE-588)4031883-7
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Kommunikationstechnik.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Meadow, Charles T. Making connections. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002 (OCoLC)606739515 |
| ISBN |
0810842335 (alk. paper) |
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9780810842335 (alk. paper) |
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0810842343 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780810842342 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780810842335 |
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