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Als Motto für die Ausstellung und das Begleitbuch wurde gewählt „Navigare necesse est“. Dieses Motto hat uns Plutarch (um 45 – um 125 n.Chr.) überliefert. Es geht auf den römischen Feldherrn Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106–48 v.Chr.) zurück,... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyCultural StudiesMedieval HistoryRenaissance Studies
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      History of Science and TechnologyHistory of TechnologyHistory of ScienceTelecommunications
The role of Hampshire UK in the development of The Telephone and other Telecommunications technologies.
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      Industrial HistoryHistory of Hampshire and WinchesterHistory of Telecommunications
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      Policy Analysis/Policy StudiesInternet StudiesTelecommunicationsMedia Policy
This chapter surveys the history of telecommunications from a global perspective and highlights three influential interpretative traditions. It has two parts. The first part defines “telecommunications” and sketches the main dimensions of... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyCultural StudiesPolitical EconomyMedia Studies
Telecommunications with a purpose is a research article that looks at the origins and development of Public Communications in Puerto Rico from 1942 to 1961. The creation of Puerto Rico’s Communications Authority in 1942—while Rexford G.... more
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      Public Service MediaModernizationPuerto RicoDevelopment
En 1974 la administración del Partido Popular bajo el gobernador Rafael Hernández Colon adquirió exitosamente la Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), cuyo dueño previo había sido el conglomerado International Telephone and Telegraph... more
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      History of TechnologyHistory of Telecommunications
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      Discourse AnalysisMedia HistoryMedia DiscourseHistory of Telecommunications
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      Electronic EngineeringTelecommunications EngineeringTelecommunications PolicyMiddle East & North Africa
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      History of Science and TechnologyHistory of TechnologyHistory of ScienceHistory of Physics
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      Cultural StudiesGender StudiesMedia and Cultural StudiesFeminist Theory
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      ColonialismUnited States HistoryMultinational CorporationsHistory of Telecommunications
Doctoral dissertation completed at Iowa State University in 1986
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El artículo analiza con nuevas fuentes los orígenes de la Unión Telegráfica Internacional (hoy, Unión Internacional de las Telecomunicaciones), describiendo, en particular, el papel económico, político y técnico jugado por la Suiza para... more
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      European HistoryEuropean StudiesInternational RelationsMedia History
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      History of Science and TechnologyEducationScience EducationWireless Communications
The Gillard Labor Government was returned to office on 14 September 2010 with the support of the Australian Greens and three independent MPs – all of whom had strongly supported the National Broadband Network. Indeed the two NSW... more
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„Von Hertz bis Handy“ Warum gibt es eine Ausstellung zu Heinrich Hertz in Hamburg? Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894) wurde am 22. Februar 1857 – also vor 150 Jahren – in Hamburg geboren. Nach ihm wurde der Hamburger Fernsehturm benannt.... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyWireless CommunicationsHistory of TechnologyHistory of Science
Los inicios de la telefonía en España tuvieron como protagonistas a algunos personajes que además de con las incertidumbres inherentes a toda nueva tecnología, tuvieron que hacer frente a las reticencias surgidas en el seno del gobierno... more
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Si la télévision a souvent été étudiée dans son contenu ou en tant que médium de masse, elle a plus rarement été l’objet d’une histoire de ses dispositifs compris en tant qu’agencements entre une représentation, un appareillage et un... more
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      Media StudiesMedia and Cultural StudiesFilm StudiesTelevision Studies
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      Modern HistoryMedia StudiesPublic OpinionModern Italian History
Los tempranos ensayos con teléfonos en España auguraban una más rápida implantación del servicio público telefónico, como la que se estaba produciendo en otros países desarrollados de nuestro entorno. En Madrid, desde el mismo año 1878,... more
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      Ottoman HistoryBalkan StudiesBalkan HistoryHistory of Science
Business history can be a valuable, even critical element in teaching international management – not only at elite institutions and at postgraduate level, but at universities of applied sciences and in undergraduate education, too. It is... more
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      European HistoryEconomic HistoryPolitical EconomyTeaching and Learning
This article has a double aim: one empirical–historical and one theoretical. First, it analyzes how the idea of an " alternative " use of wireless (namely, broadcasting) emerged and was debated inside the British Marconi Company in the... more
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      Organizational BehaviorMedia StudiesOrganizational TheoryWireless Communications
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      History of Science and TechnologyCultural HistoryHistory Of ComputingHistory of Mathematics
This chapter argues Information and Communication Technlogy (ICT) diffusion in Brazil was largely driven by creative innovations in from below by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who sought to create new forms of access to the... more
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      Information TechnologyInternational CommunicationSocial EntrepreneurshipPolitical Economy of Communication
En los últimos quince años, la industria de las telecomunicaciones ha sufrido una verdadera revolución en su funcionamiento e importancia económica.
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      Media StudiesTelecommunicationsHistory of TelecommunicationsTelecomunicaciones
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      Latin American and Caribbean HistoryMass CommunicationCaribbean HistoryCaribbean Studies
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Only 19 years after a timid introduction of telephony in Spain and seven years before the founding of the National Telephonic Company of Spain, Pascual Salmerón Gómez records his two patents: "Duplex telephonic" and "Simultaneous duplex... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyCultural HistoryHistory of TechnologyTelecommunications
This paper studies the response of the Canary Islands administrations to the growing demand for telephone services beyond urban networks until the arrival / establishment of the monopoly in 1924. These networks fulfilled a social function... more
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      Public AdministrationContemporary HistoryHistory of TelecommunicationsCanary Islands
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Liz Fell (7 March 1940 to 13 August 2020), a freelance journalist, was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Telecommunication Society of Australia in 2003 for her notable and enduring contributions to Australian telecommunications.... more
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      Internet StudiesTelecommunications PolicyInternet LinguisticsHistory of Telecommunications
The postwar , and subsequent Cold War, boom in telecommunication demanded all manner of experimental engineering and ingenious infrastructures for transmission to receive, store, sort and (re) distribute data. Exploiting the airwaves... more
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      Cold War and CultureConcreteArt and Aesthetics of the Cold WarHistory of Telecommunications
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      History of Science and TechnologyPhilosophyWireless CommunicationsHistory of Technology
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      History of Science and TechnologyInformation TechnologyPolitical EconomyMedia Studies
"With contributions by Gregor Schiemann, Claus Peter Ortlieb, John Preston, Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein, Rudolf Seising, Peter Heering, Karl Heinrich Wiederkehr, Martin Henke, Martin Wegener, Frank Dittmann, Roland Wittje, Jesper... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyPhilosophyWireless CommunicationsHistory of Technology
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      Telecommunications EngineeringCommunicationCritical PedagogyHistory of Telecommunications
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      History of Science and TechnologyElectromagnetismHistory of TechnologyHistory of Science
Tony Newstead, who died on 6 November 2017, was a pioneering figure in Australian and worldwide telecommunications network planning, as well as in Australian trad jazz as both a trumpeter and early bandleader. This obituary attempts to do... more
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Trevor Barr's page-turner of a novel Grand Intentions tackles the ugly side of the neo-liberalism sweeping Australia in the 1990s and 2000s. It examines the privatisation of an incumbent telecommunications carrier, and the drastic impact... more
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Conferencia “Pensar la comunicación en un nuevo milenio en Puerto Rico; II encuentro de investigadores en comunicación” 14 y 15 de abril de 2008 , Escuela de Comunicación del Recinto de Río Piedras
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      History of TelecommunicationsSocial History of Technology
The weather report became a staple of local television in the United States during the 1950s. While viewers clearly desired weather information, it was not obvious how meteorology should be presented. Public meteorology’s existing visual... more
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      Television StudiesHistory of ScienceHistory of TelecommunicationsCartoons
This article proposes a methodology for studying the social history of telecommunications grounded in the interrelations and contaminations between Anglophone and Continental literature; its originality lies in the fact that it presents... more
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      Media StudiesMedia EconomicsResearch MethodologyMedia History
""An apparatus perfotransmisor Vázquez" the title the telegraph transmitting device that José Vázquez Miranda, head of the telegraph of Cieza invent in 1921. A device, invented and developed in Cieza, which would improve the speed of... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyHistory of TechnologyScience, Technology and SocietyTechnology And Culture
Please Use Full citation: “Recrutement et démographie du corps des télégraphes (1845-1900),” 33-57 in Pascal Griset, ed., Les ingénieurs des Télécommunications dans la France contemporaine: Réseaux, innovation et territories (xixe-xxe... more
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      History of TelecommunicationsHistory of Electrical Engineering
Línea del tiempo con los principales desarrollos y descubrimientos referentes a las telecomunicaciones. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timeline with the most... more
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      Telecommunications EngineeringTelecommunicationsElectronics & Telecommunication EngineeringHistory of Telecommunications
El propósito de este artículo es identificar el rol de la niñez en el contenido y las prácticas televisivas de los años cincuenta en la ciudad de México y su relación con el discurso moralizador católico. Los infantes se perfilaron como... more
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      History of Childhood and YouthHistory of ChildhoodMéxico-siglos xix y xxHistory of Telecommunications