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_b.H66 2001eb
100 1 _aHong, Sungook,
_eauthor.
_924472
245 1 0 _aWireless :
_bfrom Marconi's black-box to the audion /
_cSungook Hong.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bMIT Press,
_cc2001.
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2001]
300 _a1 PDF (xiv, 248 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aTransformations: studies in the history of science and technology
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.
505 0 _aHertzian 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.
506 1 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aBy 1897 Guglielmo Marconi had transformed James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves into a workable wireless telegraphy system, and by 1907 Lee de Forest had invented the audion, a feedback amplifier and oscillator that opened the way to practical radio transmission. Fifteen years after Marconi's invention, wireless had become an essential means of communication, as well as a hobby for many.This book offers a new perspective on the early days of wireless communication. Drawing on previously untapped archival evidence and recent work in the history and sociology of science and technology, it examines the substance and context of both experimental and theoretical aspects of engineering and scientific practices in the first years of this technology. It offers new insights into the relationship between Marconi and his scientific advisor, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming (inventor of the vacuum tube). It includes the full story of the infamous 1903 incident in which Marconi's opponent Nevil Maskelyne interfered with Fleming's public demonstration of Marconi's syntonic (tuning) system at the Royal Institution by sending derogatory messages from his own transmitter. The analysis of the Maskelyne affair highlights the struggle between Marconi and his opponents, the efficacy of early syntonic devices, Fleming's role as a public witness to Marconi's private experiments, and the nature of Marconi's "shows." It also provides a rare case study of how the credibility of an engineer can be created, consumed, and suddenly destroyed. The book concludes with a discussion of de Forest's audion and the shift from wireless telegraphy to radio.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650 0 _aRadio
_xHistory.
_924473
655 0 _aElectronic books.
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710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_924474
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_924475
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780262082983
830 0 _aTransformations (M.I.T. Press)
_924345
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6940410
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