Masters of Space

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics, Technology & Engineering

Authors: Walter Kellogg Towers In Year : 1917

Book Language: English

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Preface
Communication Among the Ancients
Signals Past and Present
Forerunners of the Telegraph
Inventions of Sir Charles Wheatstone
The Achievement of Morse
'What Hath God Wrought?'
Development of the Telegraph System
Telegraphing Beneath the Sea
The Pioneer Atlantic Cable
A Successful Cable Attained
Alexander Graham Bell, The Youth
The Birth of the Telephone
The Telephone at the Centennial
Improvement and Expansion
Telegraphing Without Wires
An Italian Boy's Work
Wireless Telegraphy Established
The Wireless Serves the World
Speaking Across the Continent
Telephoning Through Space
Appendix A
Appendix B

This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the technical and commercial fields, they succeeded in flashing both messages and speech around the world, with wires and without wires. It is the story of how the thought of the world has been linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and, most recently, the wireless telephone. (From Preface) - Summary by Walter Kellogg Towers