History of Telecommunications
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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
The role of Hampshire UK in the development of The Telephone and other Telecommunications technologies.
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
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
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
Doctoral dissertation completed at Iowa State University in 1986
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
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
„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
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
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
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
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
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
En los últimos quince años, la industria de las telecomunicaciones ha sufrido una verdadera revolución en su funcionamiento e importancia económica.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
""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
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
Línea del tiempo con los principales desarrollos y descubrimientos referentes a las telecomunicaciones. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timeline with the most... more