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From Edison to Marconi

Author : David J. Steffen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451564
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book From Edison to Marconi written by David J. Steffen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like any profound technological breakthrough, the advent of sound recording ushered in a period of explosive and imaginative experimentation, growth and competition. Between the commercial debut of Edison’s “talking machine” in 1889 and the first commercial radio broadcast three decades later, the recording industry was uncharted territory in terms of both technology and content. This history of the earliest years of sound recording—the time between the phonograph’s appearance and the licensing of commercial radio—examines a newly created technology and industry in search of itself. It follows the story from the earliest efforts to capture sound, to the fight among wire, cylinder and disk recordings for primacy in the market, to the growth and development of musical genres, record companies and business practices that remain current today. The work chronicles the people, events and developments that turned a novel, expensive idea into a highly marketable commodity. Two appendices provide extensive lists of popular genre and ethnic recordings made between 1889 and 1919. A bibliography and index accompany the text.

Marconi

Author : Marc Raboy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199313601
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Marconi written by Marc Raboy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little over a century ago, the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships could now make contact with other ships (saving lives, such as on the doomed S.S. Titanic); financial markets could coordinate with other financial markets, establishing the price of commodities and fixing exchange rates; military commanders could connect with the front lines, positioning artillery and directing troop movements. Suddenly and irrevocably, time and space telescoped beyond what had been thought imaginable. Someone had not only imagined this networked world but realized it: Guglielmo Marconi. As Marc Raboy shows us in this enthralling and comprehensive biography, Marconi was the first truly global figure in modern communications. Born to an Italian father and an Irish mother, he was in many ways stateless, working his cosmopolitanism to advantage. Through a combination of skill, tenacity, luck, vision, and timing, Marconi popularized--and, more critically, patented--the use of radio waves. Soon after he burst into public view at the age of 22 with a demonstration of his wireless apparatus in London, 1896, he established his Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company and seemed unstoppable. He was decorated by the Czar of Russia, named an Italian Senator, knighted by King George V of England, and awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics--all before the age of 40. Until his death in 1937, Marconi was at the heart of every major innovation in electronic communication, courted by powerful scientific, political, and financial interests. He established stations and transmitters in every corner of the globe, from Newfoundland to Buenos Aires, Hawaii to Saint Petersburg. Based on original research and unpublished archival materials in four countries and several languages, Raboy's book is the first to connect significant parts of Marconi's story, from his early days in Italy, to his groundbreaking experiments, to his protean role in world affairs. Raboy also explores Marconi's relationshps with his wives, mistresses, and children, and examines in unsparing detail the last ten years of the inventor's life, when he returned to Italy and became a pillar of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. Raboy's engrossing biography, which will stand as the authoritative work of its subject, proves that we still live in the world Marconi created.

Signor Marconi's Magic Box

Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786748540
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Signor Marconi's Magic Box written by Gavin Weightman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world at the turn of the twentieth century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania"-brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize) at the center of it all. At a time when the telephone, telegraph, and electricity made the whole world wonder just what science would think of next, the startling answer had come in 1896 in the form of two mysterious wooden boxes containing a device one Guglielmo Marconi had rigged up to transmit messages "through the ether." It was the birth of the radio, and no scientist in Europe or America, not even Marconi himself, could at first explain how it worked -- it just did. And no one knew how far these radio waves could travel, until 1903, when a message from President Theodore Roosevelt to the king of England flashed from Cape Cod to Cornwall clear across the Atlantic.Here is a rich portrait of the man and his era-and a captivating tale of science and scientists, business and businessmen. There are stories of British blowhards, American con artists-and Marconi himself: a character par excellence, who eventually winds up a virtual prisoner of his worldwide fame and fortune.

Edison

Author : Ronald Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448210275
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Edison written by Ronald Clark and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is almost a century since Thomas Alva Edison, the world's greatest inventor, gave the world electric light - and exactly one hundred years since he built the first successful phonograph (forerunner of the gramophone). The man who declared that "genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration," and who on average lodged a patent every two weeks of his adult life, was the most famous American of his day. Only now, however, is it possible to present him clearly against the background of his times and to access fairly his achievements and his often controversial business and working methods. In Edison: The Man Who Made The Future, first published in 1977, Ronald Clark describes the inventors early untutored upbringing, his struggles in the industrial jungle which grew up in the aftermath of the American Civil War, and his vital contributions to what became the motion picture industry. A prolific inventor in his own right, he was also a developer of other men's ideas. A pacifist, he became President of the U.S. Naval Consulting Board in the First World War. Thrusting, enquiring, and determined to leave his mark on history, he was, perhaps, the archetypal American of his era.

SSC Reasoning (Verbal & Non-Verbal) Guide for CGL/ CHSL/ MTS/ GD Constable/ Stenographer

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9386323311
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book SSC Reasoning (Verbal & Non-Verbal) Guide for CGL/ CHSL/ MTS/ GD Constable/ Stenographer written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book 'SSC Reasoning (Verbal & Non-Verbal) Guide for CGL/ CHSL/ MTS/ GD Constable/ Stenographer' has been designed considering the latest patterns of the SSC exams. The book has 2 parts - Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning. The Verbal part contains 22 chapters whereas the Non-Verbal part contains 7 chapters. Further a Question Bank of past SSC Questions and 8 Practice Sets have been provided for the SSC exams. Each chapter of this book contains theory with Solved Examples. The chapter's Exercise part has been sub-divided into four sections on the basis of the difficulty level of the questions, i.e. • Concept Applicator: Easy • Concept Builder: Easy –Moderate • Concept Cracker: Moderate • Concept Deviator: Difficult. The exercise in the book contains previous year’s questions of the various exams. At the end of the chapters a Miscellaneous Question Bank is provided. It contains around 500+ MILESTONE SSC past Questions that will provide enhanced practice, much needed to crack this section. The book also provides 8 Speed Practice Sets, along with detailed solutions, will help the aspirants to understand the new pattern of the examination as well as to understand the importance of time management.

The European Edisons

Author : Anand Kumar Sethi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137492228
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The European Edisons written by Anand Kumar Sethi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the lives, inventions, discoveries, and significant work of three extraordinary European inventors with noteworthy links to the great Thomas Alva Edison – Alessandro Volta, Nikola Tesla, and Eric Tigerstedt. It explores the business and scientific legacies that these men have contributed to the modern world. Despite prejudices, ill health, financial stringency, geopolitical situations, business rivalries, and in many cases just awful luck, they remained determined to deliver extraordinary scientific and technological developments to a skeptical and unappreciative world. This book is a testament to anyone pursuing their technological dreams for the benefit of society, and will enhance the literature for scholars, researchers, and the well-informed reader with an interest in science, technology, and the personalities involved in history.

Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology

Author : Aaron A. Toscano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400739761
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology written by Aaron A. Toscano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values—speed, efficiency, militarization, and progress. Language surrounding the wireless is a form of technical communication, overlooked by today’s practitioners. This book establishes a broader definition for technical communication by examining a selection of the discourse surrounding Marconi's wireless. The book’s main themes are the following: 1) technical communication is all discourse surrounding technology, 2) the field of technical communication (or technical writing) should incorporate analyses of discourse surrounding technologies into its epistemology, 3) the wireless is a product of the society from which it comes (early twentieth-century Western civilization), and 4) the discourse surrounding the wireless is infused with tropes of progress—speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity.

Edison

Author : Edmund Morris
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679644652
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Edison written by Edmund Morris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the gift of universal electric light. His invention of the first practical incandescent lamp 140 years ago so dazzled the world—already reeling from his invention of the phonograph and dozens of other revolutionary devices—that it cast a shadow over his later achievements. In all, this near-deaf genius (“I haven’t heard a bird sing since I was twelve years old”) patented 1,093 inventions, not including others, such as the X-ray fluoroscope, that he left unlicensed for the benefit of medicine. One of the achievements of this staggering new biography, the first major life of Edison in more than twenty years, is that it portrays the unknown Edison—the philosopher, the futurist, the chemist, the botanist, the wartime defense adviser, the founder of nearly 250 companies—as fully as it deconstructs the Edison of mythological memory. Edmund Morris, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, brings to the task all the interpretive acuity and literary elegance that distinguished his previous biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Ludwig van Beethoven. A trained musician, Morris is especially well equipped to recount Edison’s fifty-year obsession with recording technology and his pioneering advances in the synchronization of movies and sound. Morris sweeps aside conspiratorial theories positing an enmity between Edison and Nikola Tesla and presents proof of their mutually admiring, if wary, relationship. Enlightened by seven years of research among the five million pages of original documents preserved in Edison’s huge laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey, and privileged access to family papers still held in trust, Morris is also able to bring his subject to life on the page—the adored yet autocratic and often neglectful husband of two wives and father of six children. If the great man who emerges from it is less a sentimental hero than an overwhelming force of nature, driven onward by compulsive creativity, then Edison is at last getting his biographical due.

Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi

Author : Timothy C. Campbell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816644421
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi written by Timothy C. Campbell and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wireless technology has become deeply embedded in everyday life, but its impact cannot be fully understood without probing the contributions of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), who ushered in the beginning of wireless communication. Marconi produced and detected sound waves over long distances, using the curvature of the earth for direction, and laid the foundations for what we know as radio—the original mobile, voice-activated, and electronic media community. Timothy C. Campbell demonstrates that Marconi’s invention of the wireless telegraph was not simply a technological act but also had an impact on poetry and aesthetics and linked the written word to the rise of mass politics. Reading influential works such as F. T. Marinetti’s futurist manifestos, Rudolf Arnheim’s 1936 study Radio, writings by Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ezra Pound’s Cantos, Campbell reveals how the newness of wireless technology was inscribed in the ways modernist authors engaged with typographical experimentation, apocalyptic tones, and newly minted models for registering voices. Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi presents an alternative history of modernism that listens as well as looks and bears in mind the altered media environment brought about by the emergence of the wireless. Timothy C. Campbell is associate professor of Italian at Cornell University.

Marconi and Tesla

Author : Tim O'Shei
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781598450767
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Marconi and Tesla written by Tim O'Shei and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the inventors of wireless communication equipment and the Tesla coil used in today's radios and television sets through an examination of their childhood years, education, inspirations, and groundbreaking discoveries.

Yeats’s Mask

Author : Margaret Mills Harper
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740175
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Yeats’s Mask written by Margaret Mills Harper and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats’s plays and those poems written as ‘texts for exposition’ of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937), the volume also spotlights ‘The Mask before The Mask’ numerous plays including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King’s Threshold, Calvary, The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats’s friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio broadcasts, the Chinese contexts for his writing of ‘Lapis Lazuli’. His self-renewal after The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, and the key occult epistolary exchange ‘Leo Africanus’, edited from MSS by Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper, is republished from the elusive Yeats Annual No. 1 (1982). The essays are by David Bradshaw, Michael Cade-Stewart, Aisling Carlin, Warwick Gould, Margaret Mills Harper, Pierre Longuenesse, Jerusha McCormack, Neil Mann, Emilie Morin, Elizabeth Müller and Alexandra Poulain, with shorter notes by Philip Bishop and Colin Smythe considering Yeats’s quatrain upon remaking himself and the pirate editions of The Land of Heart’s Desire. Ten reviews focus on various volumes of the Cornell Yeats MSS Series, his correspondence with George Yeats, and numerous critical studies. Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London.

Popular Mechanics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Fleet Fire

Author : L. J. Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1611456592
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Fleet Fire written by L. J. Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electric revolution, which eclipsed the Industrial Revolution by the end of the 19th century and continues to this day, changed our world forever. FLEET FIRE tells us how it all began. In an engaging and entertaining narrative, L. J. Davis fields a cast of both prominent and forgotten characters, from dedicated scientists and mischievous rogues to enlightened amateurs who lit the sparks of discovery. Franklin's kite, Davenport's electromagnet, Morse's telegraph, Cyrus Field's transatlantic cable, and Edison's phonograph are but a few of the achievements Davis discusses. Explaining the science in lucid prose, FLEET FIRE conveys the arc of discovery during one of the most creative epochs in the history of mankind.

The American Exporter

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The American Exporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edison: A Biography

Author : Matthew Josephson
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edison: A Biography written by Matthew Josephson and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great folk hero in American history, Edison is viewed by the public as a facile inventor, the electrical wizard and the perfect symbol of the self-made and practical creator. But he was also a paradoxical figure: deaf, impoverished and with no formal education as a youngster, Edison nevertheless became a fertile and versatile inventor, accumulated fortunes for himself and others but remained indifferent to wealth except as a means towards more inventions. Edison’s key contributions include the carbon microphone, the electric light bulb, electricity distribution systems, the phonograph and the motion-picture camera. Edison’s methods were also remarkable: halfway between the craftsman-tinkerer of the early 19th century and the scientist of today, he established and ran pioneering research laboratories with large staffs, yet lacked training in mathematics or the basic sciences. Matthew Josephson’s Edison: A Biography won the Society of American Historians’Francis Parkman Prize in 1960. “This is an outstanding biography... [Josephson] establishes the developing relationship between finance and invention which constitutes the basis for Edison’s success... [He] has mastered the substance of Edison’s inventive activity and has written of it quite authoritatively and vividly.” — Thomas P. Hughes, Technology and Culture “... It is clear that there is reason to welcome yet another book about a man of whom so much has been written. It must have been precisely because so much in the Edison record is myth, fostered by adulators and by Edison himself that Mr. Josephson turned his skillful, corrective hand to a saga that may have seemed more familiar than it actually is. From his well-presented, well-written findings emerges a giant without whom much of life as we live it would simply not exist. It is a first-rate job that needed doing.” — John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune “A well-researched account of the life of one of America’s authentic folk heroes--Thomas Alva Edison--an original creator with a genius for strategic invention... Thoroughly absorbing, this significant volume is a competent contribution to the history of American science, and gives not only a sharply drawn picture of this self-educated giant of invention, but also of the beginnings of the telegraph, electrical, record, motion picture and automobile industries, as well as the sociological changes that were wrought by Edison’s practical discoveries.” — Kirkus Review “A biography that is dignified, detailed, and objective, sprinkled with moments of humor, pathos, and drama... One of the chief virtues of this book is the care taken by the author to build up a realistic picture of Edison the man.” — F. Garvin Davenport,The American Historical Review

Koncepts of LR - Logical Reasoning for CAT & Other MBA Exams 3rd Edition

Author : Gajendra Kumar
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9388919130
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Koncepts of LR - Logical Reasoning for CAT & Other MBA Exams 3rd Edition written by Gajendra Kumar and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd edition of the revised & updated book “Koncepts of LR - Logical Reasoning for CAT & Other MBA Exams” is the benchmark in the learning process for Logical Reasoning. The book is the result of an extensive analysis of the past year exams papers. It now incorporates CAT questions from the past 20 years and 8 years of IIFT, & XAT questions. The book introduces Critical Reasoning for the first time. The books major focus is on Problem Solving Caselets and it provides numerous examples, past questions and practice caselets. The entire book has been divided into 21 chapters which provide conceptual inputs along with Solved Examples followed by Exercises in 5 difficulty levels viz. Concept Applicator, Concept Builder, Concept Cracker, Concept Deviator and Data Sufficiency, with detailed solutions. The Author has taken the onus of formulating questions on his own with his expertise in the domain. The result being, more than 1600+ questions incorporated in the book each with detailed solution, a feature not available anywhere otherwise. This book serves the purpose for all the aptitude test takers looking to crack exams like CAT, XAT, SNAP, IIFT & other MBA exams.

Wizard

Author : Marc J. Seifer
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806519609
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Wizard written by Marc J. Seifer and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Croatian immigrant who "has been called the patron saint of electricity."