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The History of the Telegraph and
Telegraphy (About.com):
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelegraph.htm
Telegraphy, from Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy
History, Theory and Construction
of the Electric Telegraph
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~pererat/pertel.htm
Technical History of the
Electromagnetic Telegraph
http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/tel/morse/morse.htm
History Wired – a
Smithsonian Institution online gallery:
http://historywired.si.edu/
"Building Telegraph
Networks" a page at the Connected Earth site
sponsored by British Telecom:
http://www.connected-earth.com/Galleries/Telecommunicationsage/Thetelegraph/Buildingtelegraphnetworks/index.htm
The History of the Telephone
(About.com):
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone.htm
Telephone, from Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone
"The Telephone" a page
at the Connected Earth site sponsored by British
Telecom:
http://www.connected-earth.com/Galleries/Telecommunicationsage/Thetelephone/index.htm
The Telephony Museum
website:
http://www.telephonymuseum.com
The Invention of Radio
(About.com)
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blradio.htm
Radio, from Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio
Radio Pioneers, from the Federal
Communications Commission site:
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/radio/
Marconi's biography on the
Nobel Prize site – also use a link here to read
the speech that introduced his award:
http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1909/marconi-bio.html
"Wireless" a page at
the Connected Earth site sponsored by British
Telecom:
http://www.connected-earth.com/Galleries/Telecommunicationsage/Awirelessworld/index.htm
United States Early Radio
History, a wonderfully detailed site by Thomas H.
White:
http://earlyradiohistory.us/
The History of Radio: Radio the
Roots of Broadcasting:
http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_radio.htm
Old-Time Radio – about
programs from radio's "golden age":
http://www.old-time.com/
Television History
(About.com):
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelevision.htm
Television, from Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television
Historical Periods in Television,
from the Federal Communications Commission site:
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/tv/
Television History - The First 75
Years
http://www.tvhistory.tv/
The Early Television Museum
http://www.earlytelevision.org/history.html
"The Video Age" a page
at the Connected Earth site sponsored by British
Telecom:
http://www.connected-earth.com/Galleries/Telecommunicationsage/Thevideoage/index.htm
The History of Television: The
Revolution of Television:
http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_TV.htm
The History of Digital
Television:
http://www.tvhandbook.com/news/history_dtv.htm
All About the Internet, from the
Internet Society:
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
W3C's A Little History of the
World Wide Web:
http://www.w3.org/History.html
"The Internet: A Short
History," from the Federal Communications
Commission site:
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/internet/
The Internet Archive –
packed with history:
http://www.archive.org/
- the home page
http://www.archive.org/details/arpanet
- a page with links to original ARPANET info.
The Living Internet:
http://www.livinginternet.com/
Nethistory, and informal history
of BITNET and the internet:
http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/
Internet, from Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
The Internet Society list of
history links:
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history
Hobbes' Internet
Timeline:
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
The Wired magazine archive:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/
The Internet History Mailing
List:
http://www.postel.org/internet-history/
Menahem Blondheim, "News
Over the Wires" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1994).
Charles F. Briggs and Augustus
Maverick, "The Story of the Telegraph" (New
York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858).
Lewis Coe, "The Telegraph: A
History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors
in the United States" (Jefferson, NC: McFarland
& Company, 1993).
George P. Oslin, "The Story
of Telecommunications," (Macon, GA: Mercer
University Press, 1992).
Frank Parsons, "The
Telegraph Monopoly" (Philadelphia: C.F. Taylor,
1899).
Victor Rosewater, "History
of Cooperative News-Gathering in the United
States" (New York: D. Appleton & Company,
1930).
Tom Standage, "The Victorian
Internet" (New York: Walker & Company,
1998).
Robert Luther Thompson,
"Wiring a Continent: The History of the Telegraph
Industry in the United States, 1832-1866 (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947).
Frederick Williams, "The
Communications Revolution" (Beverly Hills, CA:
Sage, 1982).
Hugh G. J. Aitken, "Syntony
and Spark: The Origins of Radio" (New York: Wiley,
1976).
Hugh G.J. Aitken, "The
Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio,
1900-1932" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1985).
W.J. Baker, "A History of
the Marconi Company" (London: Methuen & Co.
Ltd., 1970).
Eric Barnouw, "A Tower in
Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States
to 1933" (New York: Oxford University Press,
1966).
Kenneth Bilby, "The General:
David Sarnoff and the Rise of the Communications
Industry" (New York: Harper & Row,
1986).
Susan J. Douglas, "Inventing
American Broadcasting, 1899-1922" (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).
W.P. Jolly, "Marconi"
(London: Constable & Company, 1972).
Tom Lewis, "Empire of the
Air: The Men Who Made Radio" (New York:
HarperCollins, 1991).
Paul Schubert, "The Electric
Word" (New York: The Macmillan Company,
1928).
J.C.W. Reith, "Broadcast
Over Britain" (London: Hodder & Stoughton,
1924).
H.M. Boettinger, "The
Telephone Book: Bell, Watson, Vail and American Life,
1876-1983" (Stearn, 1983).
Robert V. Bruce, "Bell:
Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of
Solitude" (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973).
Lewis Coe, "The Telephone
and Its Several Inventors: A History" (Jefferson,
NC: McFarland, 1995).
Ithiel de Sola Pool,
"Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective
Technology Assessment of the Telephone" (Norwood,
NJ: Ablex Publishing Company, 1983).
Claude S. Fischer, "America
Calling" (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1992).
Edwin S. Grosvenor and Morgan
Wesson, "Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times
of the Man Who Invented the Telephone" (Harry
Abrams, 1997).
John E. Kingsbury, "The
Telephone and Telephone Exchanges: Their Invention and
Development" (Longmans, Green, 1915; reprinted by
Arno Press, 1972).
George B. Prescott,
"Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone: Its
Invention, Construction, Application, Modification and
History" (D. Appleton, 1884; reprinted by Arno
Press, 1972).
George Shiers, "The
Telephone: An Historical Anthology" (Printed in
Arno Press, "Historical Studies in
Telecommunications," 1977).
Albert Abramson, "History of
Television, 1880-1941" (Jefferson, NC: McFarland,
1987).
Erik Barnouw, "Tube of
Plenty: The Evolution of American Television" (New
York: Oxford, 1990).
R.W. Burns, "John Logie
Baird: Television Pioneer" (London: Institution of
Electrical Engineers, 2000).
D.G. Fink, "Television
Broadcasting in the United States, 1927-1950,"
Proceedings of the IRE (February 1951), 116-123.
David E. and Marshall J. Fisher,
"Tube: The Invention of Television"
(Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1996).
Donald Godfrey, "Philo T.
Farnsworth: Father of Television" (Salt Lake City:
University of Utah Press, 2001).
Thomas H. Hutchinson, "Here
Is Television: Your Window to the World" (New
York: Hastings House, 1946).
Axel G. Jensen, "The
Evolution of Modern Television," Journal of the
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
(November 1954), 174-188.
George Shiers, "Historical
Notes on Television Before 1900," Journal of the
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
(March 1977), 129-137.
Hugh R. Slotten, "Radio and
Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the
United States, 1920-1960" (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2000).
Joseph H. Udelson, "The
Great Television Race: History of the American
Television Industry, 1925-1941" (University of
Alabama Press, 1982).
Peter F. Yanczer, "The
Mechanics of Television: The Story of Mechanical
Television" (St. Louis: the author, 1987).
Janna Quitney Anderson, "Imagining
the Internet: Personalities, Predictions,
Perspectives" (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2005). Information about the content
is available online at http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/publications.xhtml.
Manuel Castells, "The
Internet Galaxy" (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001).
Tim Berners-Lee, "Weaving
the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of
the World Wide Web" (New York: HarperCollins,
1999).
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon,
"Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the
Internet" (New York: Touchstone, 1996).
Nicholas Negroponte, "Being
Digital" (New York: Vintage, 1996): portions
available online at http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm.
Howard Rheingold, "The
Virtual Community" (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2000); 1993 version available online at http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vcbook/vcbookintro.html.
William Mitchell, "City of
Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn" (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1996); available online at http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits/.
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