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Signals : the science of telecommunications / John R. Pierce and A. Michael Noll.

By: Pierce, John R. (John Robinson), 1910-2002.
Contributor(s): Noll, A. Michael.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Scientific American Library series ; no. 32.Publisher: New York : Scientific American Library: Distributed by W.H. Freeman, 1990Description: vi, 247 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0716750260 .Subject(s): TelecommunicationDDC classification: 621.38
Contents:
A grand dream in a real world -- Electrical communication -- Theories of communication: Fourier to Shannon -- Modulation and encoding -- Multiplexing: Many messages on one medium -- Electricity and light as waves: signals as physical phenomena -- Electric and electronic devices: the physics of communication systems -- Switching and signaling: the "brains" of communication -- Networks for voice and data communication -- Telecommunications policy and challenges -- The present and future of communication.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 621.38 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00056951
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-240) and index.

A grand dream in a real world -- Electrical communication -- Theories of communication: Fourier to Shannon -- Modulation and encoding -- Multiplexing: Many messages on one medium -- Electricity and light as waves: signals as physical phenomena -- Electric and electronic devices: the physics of communication systems -- Switching and signaling: the "brains" of communication -- Networks for voice and data communication -- Telecommunications policy and challenges -- The present and future of communication.

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A fascinating book, written with obvious attention and devotion. Pierce and Noll are best described as having been at Bell Laboratories at the time of the invention of the transistor and as having subsequently gone on to great honors in industry and academia. This book updates an earlier book on the same subject (Signals: The Telephone and Beyond, CH, Jan'82). On the way to defining the role of telecommunications in the past, present, and future, the authors recall the humble beginnings of the telephone and studies of human speech. Included are Shannon's information theory, Maxwell's electromagnetism and its conversion to the use of lasers, and the transformation of the laws of physics into the technology of telecommunications. Pierce and Noll profile the pioneers of the science and survey the numerous discoveries, theories, and fields of research that have contributed to modern technology. Enthusiastically recommended for acquisition by all libraries. -S. Lapatine, College of Staten Island, CUNY

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