Wireless: From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion

by Sungook Hong

Book Overview

A new look at the early history of wireless communication.

By 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262514192
• ISBN13: 9780262514194
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher