History of telegraphy /
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| Author / Creator: | Beauchamp, K. G. |
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| Imprint: | London : Institution of Electrical Engineers, ©2001. |
| Description: | xxii, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | IEE history of technology series ; 26 History of technology series ; 26. |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4362457 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part 1. Terrestrial Telegraphy
- 1. Things mechanical
- 1.1. Shutter systems
- 1.2. Chappe's telegraph
- 1.3. Popham and the Admiralty installation
- 1.4. Some semaphore systems in Europe
- 1.5. Semaphore in the United States
- 1.6. Operations
- References
- 2. Early electrical ideas
- 2.1. Electrostatic devices
- 2.2. Electrochemical devices
- 2.3. The 'needle' telegraphs
- 2.4. Cooke and Wheatstone
- 2.5. Telegraphy on the railways
- 2.6. Dial telegraphs
- 2.7. Codes and ciphers
- References
- 3. Commercial telegraphy
- 3.1. Morse and single-line working
- 3.2. Telegraph companies in the United States
- 3.3. Development in Britain
- 3.4. The Telegraph Acts of 1868-69
- 3.4.1. The Electric and International Telegraph Company
- 3.4.2. The British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
- 3.4.3. The London and District Telegraph Company
- 3.4.4. The United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company
- 3.4.5. The Universal Private Telegraph Company
- 3.4.6. The Reuter's Telegram Company
- 3.4.7. The Exchange Telegraph Company
- 3.5. Faster, cheaper telegrams
- 3.6. Recording and printing
- 3.7. Overhead or underground?
- 3.8. Telegraphy in British India
- References
- 4. Military operations
- 4.1. War in the Crimea
- 4.2. The Indian Mutiny
- 4.3. The American Civil War
- 4.4. European conflicts
- 4.5. African colonial wars
- 4.5.1. The Nile and Egyptian campaigns
- 4.5.2. The Boer War
- 4.6. Early British Army telegraph training
- 4.7. The Telegraph Battalion
- 4.8. The Society of Telegraph Engineers
- 4.9. British Army signalling
- References
- 5. Submarine cables
- 5.1. Leaving the land
- 5.2. Gutta-percha
- 5.3. Crossing the Channel
- 5.4. The Siberian Telegraph
- 5.5. Oceanic cables
- 5.6. Theory and techniques
- 5.6.1. Loading
- 5.6.2. Sensitive detectors
- 5.7. Atlantic crossing
- 5.8. Links to South America
- 5.9. Cable-laying technology
- 5.10. A Committee of Inquiry
- 5.11. A Cable to India ...
- 5.12. ... and further East
- 5.13. The Australian connection
- 5.14. The world encompassed
- References
- Part 2. Aerial Telegraphy
- 6. Marconi and the experimenters
- 6.1. Beginnings
- 6.2. Marconi
- 6.3. Transatlantic attempt
- 6.4. Spark and arc
- 6.4.1. 'Short spark' operation
- 6.4.2. The electric arc
- 6.4.3. The high-frequency alternator
- 6.4.4. Frequency multiplication
- 6.5. Production and power
- 6.5.1. The 'Marconi system'
- 6.5.2. Marconi high-power stations
- 6.5.3. Duplex working
- 6.5.4. Telefunken and Siemens
- 6.5.5. Keying at high power
- 6.5.6. Continuous waves in the United States
- References
- 7. Telegraphy for peace ...
- 7.1. The advent of thermionics
- 7.1.1. Detection
- 7.1.2. Amplification and oscillation
- 7.1.3. Transmission
- 7.2. Linking the Empire
- 7.2.1. Cable and wireless
- 7.2.2. Reuters and the news service
- 7.3. Maritime communication
- 7.3.1. Wireless training in the merchant navy
- 7.3.2. Codes, telegrams and newspapers at sea
- 7.4. Life-saving at sea
- 7.5. International agreements
- 7.6. Civil aviation
- 7.7. The role of amateurs
- References
- 8. ... and at war
- 8.1. Army wireless before 1914
- 8.2. War on the ground, 1914-18
- 8.2.1. Wireless direction-finding
- 8.2.2. Trench warfare
- 8.2.3. Wireless at the front
- 8.2.4. Two military engagements
- 8.3. The inter-war years
- 8.4. War on the ground, 1939-45
- 8.4.1. Line working
- 8.4.2. The African campaigns
- 8.4.3. Communication systems
- 8.4.4. Across the Channel
- 8.5. Army wireless in the Second World War
- 8.5.1. Allied wireless equipment
- 8.5.2. German Army wireless
- 8.6. British Army training and recruitment
- References
- 9. Military telegraphy at sea
- 9.1. Wireless experiments at sea
- 9.2. War at sea, 1914-18
- 9.2.1. Shipboard wireless equipment
- 9.2.2. The Naval wireless telegraph network
- 9.2.3. Cable operations
- 9.3. The shore stations
- 9.4. The inter-war years
- 9.5. War at sea, 1939-45
- 9.5.1. Allied wireless equipment
- 9.5.2. German wireless equipment
- 9.6. Cable ships and cables
- 9.7. British naval wireless training
- References
- 10. Military telegraphy in the air
- 10.1. The dirigible
- 10.2. War in the air, 1914-18
- 10.2.1. British airborne equipment
- 10.2.2. Training telegraphists for air operations
- 10.2.3. American airborne equipment
- 10.2.4. German airborne equipment
- 10.3. The inter-war years
- 10.3.1. Use of shorter wavelengths
- 10.3.2. The 1929 development programme
- 10.4. War in the air, 1939-45
- 10.4.1. British airborne equipment
- 10.4.2. American airborne equipment
- 10.4.3. German airborne equipment
- 10.5. RAF wireless training
- References
- 11. Epilogue
- 11.1. The demise of Morse
- 11.2. High-speed telegraphy
- 11.3. Baudot and the new codes
- 11.3.1. Keyboard machines
- 11.3.2. The teleprinter
- 11.3.3. Military use of the teleprinter
- 11.4. Telegram, telex and the telephone
- 11.4.1. The telex service
- 11.4.2. Telephony by submarine cable and satellite
- 11.5. The digital revolution
- References
- Index
