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Dot-dash to Dot.com : how modern telecommunications evolved from the telegraph to the internet / Andrew Wheen.
- Title
- Dot-dash to Dot.com : how modern telecommunications evolved from the telegraph to the internet / Andrew Wheen.
- Author
- Wheen, Andrew.
- Publication
- New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : published in association with Praxis Pub., c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HE7631 .W5 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 301 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book traces the inventions that shaped modern communications, the key players involved, how the internet works and what is coming next.--From back cover.
- Series Statement
- Springer-Praxis books in popular science
- Uniform Title
- Springer-Praxis books in popular science
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The birth of an industry -- The telegraph goes global -- A gatecrasher spoils the party -- Early telephone networks -- Going digital -- A bit of wet string -- The last mile -- Computers get chatty -- The birth of the Internet -- Life in cyberspace -- The mobile revolution -- When failure is not an option -- What comes next?
- ISBN
- 9781441967596
- 1441967591
- 9781441967602 (e-ISBN) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2010929000
- OCLC
- 646114060
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library