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Download or read book A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : AT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Engineering and Operations in the Bell System written by AT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Department and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561084
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Idea Factory written by Jon Gertner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies “Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review “Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers fascinating evidence for those seeking to understand how a society should best invest its research resources.” —The Wall Street Journal From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs. In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs. Today, when the drive to invent has become a mantra, Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of the challenges and solutions to technological innovation. Here, after all, was where the foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born.
Author : W. Brooke Tunstall
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780070654341
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Disconnecting Parties written by W. Brooke Tunstall and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1985 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phil Lapsley
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802193757
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Exploding the Phone written by Phil Lapsley and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computers, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic telegraph,” by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same. Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. Phil Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of “phone phreaks” who turned the network into their electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, the explosion of telephone hacking in the counterculture, and the war between the phreaks, the phone company, and the FBI. The product of extensive original research, Exploding the Phone is a groundbreaking, captivating book that “does for the phone phreaks what Steven Levy’s Hackers did for computer pioneers” (Boing Boing). “An authoritative, jaunty and enjoyable account of their sometimes comical, sometimes impressive and sometimes disquieting misdeeds.” —The Wall Street Journal “Brilliantly researched.” —The Atlantic “A fantastically fun romp through the world of early phone hackers, who sought free long distance, and in the end helped launch the computer era.” —The Seattle Times
Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521389297
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The Fall of the Bell System written by Peter Temin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It was a major development in American economic policy, and a prominent part of the deregulation movement of the late 1970s. This study reveals the internal decision-making process at AT&T and explains how private and public interests combined to shape corporate and public policy in late 20th-century America. Temin weaves the strands of politics, economics, business, and law into an accessible narrative history that will be of interest to the general reader who wants to know about government business interaction and how it affects American citizens. Temin portrays divestiture as a great experiment in public policy, competition, openness, and international policy. He concludes that the experiment has been a mix of deliberate design and uncontrollable forces whose outcome was not foreseen.
Author : Stephen B. Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521651189
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing the Future written by Stephen B. Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents
Author : Robert MacDougall
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812245695
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The People's Network written by Robert MacDougall and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional autonomy. As the Bell empire grew, independents fought fiercely to retain control of their local networks and companies—a struggle with an emerging corporate giant that has been almost entirely forgotten. The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived.
Author : Edwin S. Grosvenor
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612309569
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Alexander Graham Bell written by Edwin S. Grosvenor and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." – New York Times Book Review Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Bell's great-grandson, tells the dramatic story of the race to invent the telephone and how Bell's patent for it would become the most valuable ever issued. He also writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in Canada. And he examines Bell's humanitarian efforts, including support for women's suffrage, civil rights, and speeches about what he warned would be a "greenhouse effect" of pollution causing global warming.
Author : H. M. Boettinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Telephone Book written by H. M. Boettinger and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bell Telephone Laboratories
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: National service in war and peace (1925-1975) written by Bell Telephone Laboratories and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Bornholz
Publisher : North Holland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Breaking Up Bell written by Robert Bornholz and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Aspray
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031441346
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Understanding Information History written by William Aspray and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microhistory is a technique that has been used effectively by writers of both fiction and nonfiction. It enables the author to cut through the complexities of large swaths of history by focusing on a particular time and place. Microhistories are particularly useful in historical study when a subfield has recently arisen and there are not yet enough monographic studies from which to draw general patterns. This microhistory focuses on a single year (1920) across the United States, with the goal of understanding the various roles of information in this society. It gives greater emphasis to the informational aspects of traditional historical topics such as farming, government bureaucracy, the Spanish flu pandemic, and Prohibition; and it gives greater attention to information-rich topics such as libraries and museums, schools and colleges, the financial services and office machinery industries, scientific research institutions, and management consultancies.
Author : Stuart Bennett
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 9780863412998
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A History of Control Engineering, 1930-1955 written by Stuart Bennett and published by IET. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the consolidation of a specialty, as the various feedback control devices used in the 1930s for aircraft and ships, the telephone system, and analogue computers, were brought together during World War II to form what is now known as the classical frequency response methods of analysis and design, and applied to non-linear, sampled-data, and stochastic systems. Follows the field's development through the post-war addition of the root locus method to the introduction of the state-space methods of modern control. Distributed by INSPEC. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Fritz E. Froehlich
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824729011
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications written by Fritz E. Froehlich and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-06-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only continuing source that helps users analyze, plan, design, evaluate, and manage integrated telecommunications networks, systems, and services, The Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications presents both basic and technologically advanced knowledge in the field. An ideal reference source for both newcomers as well as seasoned specialists, the Encyclopedia covers seven key areas--Terminals and Interfaces; Transmission; Switching, Routing, and Flow Control; Networks and Network Control; Communications Software and Protocols; Network and system Management; and Components and Processes."
Author : Noel L. Griese
Publisher : Anvil Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780970497505
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Arthur W. Page written by Noel L. Griese and published by Anvil Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Griese has written the definitive biography of public relations pioneer Arthur W. Page, whose father Walter H. Page with Frank N. Doubleday in 1900 created the publishing house of Doubleday, Page & Co. Arthur Page joined the firm as a reporter on the World's Work magazine after graduating from Harvard in 1905. In 1913, when his father was named U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Arthur Page became editor of the World's Work. He remained with Doubleday until 1926 except for one break during World War I during which he served on the propaganda staff of Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing. In 1927, he left Doubelday to become the public relations vice president of AT&T, then America's largest corporation. A close friend of Henry L. Stimson, Page during World War II headed the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, which oversaw such morale activities as the American Red Cross, USO, Yank magazine, the Stars & Stripes newspaper, Army films and other activities. He went to England in 1944 to oversee troop information for the Normandy Invasion. In 1945, he wrote the news release announcing the first use of the atom bomb at Hiroshima. Page retired from AT&T at the end of 1946. From then until his death in 1960, he was an eminent public relations consultant and a founder of Radio Free Europe. Noel Griese's biography has been selected to the Knowledge Is Power short list of the best books ever written on the subject of public relations.
Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190290188
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Digital Hand written by James W. Cortada and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries embraced the computer and changed the American economy. Computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in America. However it is difficult to grasp the full extent of these changes and their implications for the future of business. To begin the long process of understanding the effects of computing in American business, we need to know the history of how computers were first used, by whom and why. In this, the second volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's and telecomunications' role in over a dozen industries, ranging from Old Economy sectors like finance and publishing to New Economy sectors like digital photography and video games. He also devotes considerable attention to the rapidly changing media and entertainment industries which are now some of the most technologically advanced in the American economy. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the ways different industries adopted new technologies, as well as the ways their innovative applications influenced other industries and the US economy as a whole. He builds on the surveys presented in the first volume of the series, which examined sixteen manufacturing, process, transportation, wholesale and retail industries. In addition to this account, of computers' impact on industries, Cortada also demonstrates how industries themselves influenced the nature of digital technology. Managers, historians and others interested in the history of modern business will appreciate this historical analysis of digital technology's many roles and future possibilities in an wide array of industries. The Digital Hand provides a detailed picture of what the infrastructure of the Information Age really looks like and how we got there.
