A History Of The Marconi Company 1874 1965

Author : W. J. Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134526148
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Marconi Company 1874-1965 written by W. J. Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible work provides a detailed picture of the history of one of the most important companies in the electronic industry.

Author : W. J. Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134526075
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Marconi Company 1874-1965 written by W. J. Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible work provides a detailed picture of the history of one of the most important companies in the electronic industry.

Author : Marc Raboy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019931358X
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( 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 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography that traces the origins and emergence of global communication through the life and career of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio.

Author : Aitor Anduaga Egaña
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199562725
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wireless and Empire written by Aitor Anduaga Egaña and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the product of consensus politics, the British Empire was based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Focusing on science, industry, government, the military, and education, this book studies the relationship between wireless and Empire throughout the interwar period.

Author : Aitor Anduaga Egaña
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198755155
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geophysics, Realism, and Industry written by Aitor Anduaga Egaña and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the issue of realism. Using wave propagation as the common thread, this is the first book to simultaneously analyse the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities of the ionosphere and of the earth's crust. However, what led physicists and engineers to adopt realist attitudes? This book suggests that a new kind of realism --a realism of social and cultural origins- is the answer: a preliminary, entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests, and a realism that was neither strictly instrumental nor exclusively operational. The book has two parts: while Part I focuses on the study of the ionosphere and how the British radio industry affected ionospheric physics, Part II focuses on the study of the Earth's crust and how the American oil industry affected crustal seismology.

Author : Aitor Anduaga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191071382
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geophysics, Realism, and Industry written by Aitor Anduaga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the issue of realism. Using wave propagation as the common thread, this is the first book to simultaneously analyse the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities of the ionosphere and of the earth's crust. However, what led physicists and engineers to adopt realist attitudes? This book suggests that a new kind of realism —a realism of social and cultural origins- is the answer: a preliminary, entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests, and a realism that was neither strictly instrumental nor exclusively operational. The book has two parts: while Part I focuses on the study of the ionosphere and how the British radio industry affected ionospheric physics, Part II focuses on the study of the Earth's crust and how the American oil industry affected crustal seismology.

Author : Andy K. Hughes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147383158X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Political Scandals written by Andy K. Hughes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have guide to the scandalous behavior of politicians around the world. Andy Hughes’s fascinating book guides us through centuries of political abuse—and just plain stupidity. This pocket guide exposes the secret side of politics, including politicians who risked or ruined their own careers for personal gain. Stories include the MP who liked to party hard and be whipped even harder; the prime minister and his hookers; expenses claims for manure; and the US president who called for all gay men to be castrated. Politicians have mixed scandal with eggs, adult movies, helicopters, drugs, shoes, beef burgers, public toilets, mobile phones, rape, turkeys, orgies, and even ice cream. And it’s not just today’s politicians who are embroiled with scandal. This explosive book reveals the questionable behavior of politicians of yesteryear from around the world.

Author : Ronald Kroeze
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192538047
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anticorruption in History written by Ronald Kroeze and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the "path to Denmark" a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonance of this view explains why efforts to promote anticorruption policies have proliferated in recent years. But while the subject of corruption and anticorruption has captured the attention of politicians, scholars, NGOs and the global media, scant attention has been paid to the link between corruption and the change of anticorruption policies over time and place, with the attendant diversity in how to define, identify and address corruption. Economists, political scientists and policy-makers in particular have been generally content with tracing the differences between low-corruption and high-corruption countries in the present and enshrining them in all manner of rankings and indices. The long-term trends—social, political, economic, cultural—potentially undergirding the position of various countries plays a very small role. Such a historical approach could help explain major moments of change in the past as well as reasons for the success and failure of specific anticorruption policies and their relation to a country's image (of itself or as construed from outside) as being more or less corrupt. It is precisely this scholarly lacuna that the present volume intends to begin to fill. The book addresses a wide range of historical contexts: Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Eurasia, Italy, France, Great Britain and Portugal as well as studies on anticorruption in the Early Modern and Modern era in Romania, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the former German Democratic Republic.

Author : Alasdair Pinkerton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789140994
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio written by Alasdair Pinkerton and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio is a medium of seemingly endless contradictions. Now in its third century of existence, the technology still seems startlingly modern; despite frequent predictions of its demise, radio continues to evolve and flourish in the age of the internet and social media. This book explores the history of the radio, describing its technological, political, and social evolution, and how it emerged from Victorian experimental laboratories to become a near-ubiquitous presence in our lives. Alasdair Pinkerton’s story is shaped by radio’s multiple characters and characteristics—radio waves occur in nature, for instance, but have also been harnessed and molded by human beings to bridge oceans and reconfigure our experience of space and time. Published in association with the Science Museum, London, Radio is an informative and thought-provoking book for all enthusiasts of an old technology that still has the capacity to enthuse, entertain, entice, and enrage today.

Author : Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262538881
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Drone written by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good. Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used for surveillance, they threaten civil liberties and violate privacy. In The Good Drone, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines a different range of uses: the deployment of drones for the greater good. Choi-Fitzpatrick analyzes the way small-scale drones—as well as satellites, kites, and balloons—are used for a great many things, including documenting human rights abuses, estimating demonstration crowd size, supporting anti-poaching advocacy, and advancing climate change research. In fact, he finds, small drones are used disproportionately for good; nonviolent prosocial uses predominate. Choi-Fitzpatrick's broader point is that the use of technology by social movements goes beyond social media—and began before social media. From the barricades in Les Misérables to hacking attacks on corporate servers to the spread of the #MeToo hashtag on Twitter, technology is used to raise awareness, but is also crucial in raising the cost of the status quo. New technology in the air changes politics on the ground, and raises provocative questions along the way. What is the nature and future of the camera, when it is taken out of human hands? How will our ideas about privacy evolve when the altitude of a penthouse suite no longer guarantees it? Working at the leading edge of an emerging technology, Choi-Fitzpatrick takes a broad view, suggesting social change efforts rely on technology in new and unexpected ways.