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ENSC/CSSCI E-129 Home Page
Web ProForum Tutorials: an excellent collection of downloadable communications tutorials sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium.
Telecommunication Sites: another extensive list of sites collected by John Scourias at the University of Waterloo.
Appliances That Changed The Home Forever: a nice overview of everyday communication technology and other household appliances.
Data Communications Today: Networks, the Internet, and the Enterprise by Stan Gelber
The
Emerging Digital Future: An Overview of Broadband and
Multimedia Networks by Stan S. Gelber and
John C. Morley.
Communication Technology Update: by August E. Grant (Editor)
The Media History Project: an exhaustive collection of links about every facet of communication.
Information Age - People, Information & Technology: an historic photo exhibition of important developments in information technology at the National Museum of American History.
Sam's Telecomms History Links Page: a very valuable list of links on telecommunications history.
The Dead Media Home Page: A very refreshing web book by Bruce Sterling and Richard Kadrey that seeks "... to give its readership a deeper, paleontological perspective right in the dizzy midst of the digital revolution. ...a book about the failures of media, the collapses of media, the supercessions of media, the strangulations of media, a book detailing all the freakish and hideous media mistakes that we should know enough now not to repeat..."
Recull d'Història de les Telecomunicacions: a chronology of events in the history of communication with some beautiful graphics in the form of postage stamps -- in Spanish.
Telecommunications History: from the NTT Digital Museum.
SoundSite Audio/Video History: brief chonologies of important events in communication history.
The Telecommunications History Timeline: avaluable resourse from Webb & Associates.
Artiklar: articles on the telecommunications history from the Telemuseum in Stockholm.
History of Communications Infrastructures: from a course under direction of Professor Randy H. Katz at the University of California.
A Short History of Telegraphy: a short but helpful history by Alan Hobbs and Sam Hallas.
Telegraph Lore: an extensive collection of telegraphic memorabilia.
Telegraph & Scientific Instrument: a set of web museum pages dedicated to the preservation of telegraph history, lore, and instrumentation by Tom Perera (W1TP).
Heroes of the Telegraph by J. Munro: html fomat from the World Wide School.
The Development of Telegraph Cable: an interesing paper from a copper trade association
Materials prepared for Harvard's Communication Systems and Technology:
Les Télégraphes Chappe (in french): from L'Ecole Centrale de Lyon a wonderful collection of lore and images relating to the Chappe system.
Materials prepared for Harvard's Communication Systems and Technology:
Underwater Telegraph Cable Details by Tom Perera (W1TP) gives useful insights on the early technology of submarine telegraphy.
The home page of Transatlantic Cable Communications: "the Original Information Highway" Canso & Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada. See in particular The Early Cable History.
Pictures from Semaphore to Satellite
The Strowger Telecomms Page: a rich guide to early telephone switching from SEG Communications.
Antique Telephone History Web Site: a lot of interesting telephone history and pictures of antique telephone instruments.
Inside AT&T Labs: Chronolog a chronology of events in telephone history -- from AT&T.
The Telephone: materials from a PBS broadcast in the Technology in America series of The American Experience.
The Evolution of Telephone Cable: an interesing paper from a copper trade association.
From Tom Farley's privatelinemagazine: "a journal of inquiry into the telephone system"
Lines and Waves: a history of electromagnetism which focuses on the contributions of Faraday and Maxwell -- from the IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering.
Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities - A Vignette History of Electromagnetics: by Professor L. Taylor of the University of Maryland.
Some relevant historic essays from NASA. See in particular the series starting at Magnetism.
Sketches of a History of Electromagnetism: from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Episodes in Romantic Science: Oersted and
the
Discovery of Electromagnetism
by Frederick Gregory, Department of History at the
University of Florida.
Chapter I: A Brief Historical Review from The Outline of Radio by John V. L. Hogan -- a very informative history written in 1923 and edited by John H. Dilks for the New Jersey Antique Radio Club.
100 Years of Radio: a history which emphasizes the role of Marconi in radio.
Radio Museum Rottenburg -Radio Pictures: the museum's collection radio pictures.
Radio Museum Rottenburg - Links to Radios: links to other radio web sites.
Surfing the Aether-Radio & Broadcasting Technology History:
Adventures
in CyberSound: Russell Naughton's outstanding collection of
links, radio pictures and biographies.
FLIWH - Friends of Long Island Wireless History: home page an organization dedicated to preserving the historic Sayville (Telefunken) Wireless Station. There are lots of links to other radio history web sites.
NDT (Non-ducting Tropospheric Propagation): The history of VHF propagation beyond line of sight by Howard Oakley.
A "Quenched" Spark Gap of Unknown Make: a excellent discussion of spark gap transmitters linked from The Telegraph Office.
Spark Keys: a review of solutions to a difficult problem linked from The Telegraph Office.
Amalgamated
Wireless
Australasia (AWA) 1/2KW Spark Gap Transmitter and Receiver
The Coherer: is a brief introduction to coherer technology.
Marconi
Coherer (1895 - 1905) see also Guglielmo
Marconi Il Coesore o Coherer e l'antenna.
The Farnsworth Chronicles: a biography of Philo Farnsworth and a review of his role of history in the history of television.
Big Dream Small Screen: materials from a PBS broadcast in the Technology in Americaseries of The American Experience.
Russell Naughton's The Development of Electromagnetic Tape Recording 1898 - 1948.
Recording Technology History: a chronology of events in information recording.
A Chronology of the History of Optical Sound Recording, to 1953
Shellac History: a chronology of events in early recording.
Radio Museum Rottenburg - Links to Gamophones and Records: links to recording memorabilia.
Images of historical communication devices
Saints: The Heroes and Geniuses of the Electronic Era: a collection of biographies from the FETCHA.
Edwin Armstrong (1890 - 1954)
eha1: the start of a excellent collection of Armstrong information and memorabilia.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
Who was? Alexander Graham Bell: a multifaceted, multimedia view of AGB -- from AT&T.
Alexander Graham Bell Notebooks Project: an in depth study by Profs. Michael Gorman and W. Bernard Carlson at the University of Virginia.
Guglielmo Marchese Marconi (1874 -
1937)
100
Years of Radio: a history which emphasizes the role of Marconi in
radio.
Biography of Guglielmo Marconi:
Nipperscape: a biography of Nipper, the "RCA dog."
Alexander Stepanovitch Popov (1859 - 1906)
Claude Shannon: good short biography.
Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943)
Demonstrations in Auditory Perception: an tutorial on basic acoustics and psychoacoustics -- from the Faculty of Music, McGill University.
Speech Analysis Tutorial: an interactive speech tutorial from the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University.
Acoustics and Music Resources: an ordered collection of web links from Duke University.
A "manometric flame" as a detector in Koenig's Acoustic Interferometer. See also The triumph of experimental acoustics: Marloye and Koenig and König-style rotating mirror with manometrically (controlled) flame.
Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone: deals with the evolution of AGB's concept of sound visualization and telephony.
Professor
Dayton
Miller's Research in Acoustics (or here): a wonderful
capsulation
of pre-electronic era acoustics research at the Case School of Applied
Sciences
(a senior project!!). Of particular interest is Miller's 1909
sound
visualization invention, the "phonodiek"
(from
roots meaning "to show sound") and a series of flame
manometer
pictures of voice sounds.
Sound
Visualization materials prepared for Harvard's Communication Systems
and Technology.
The Transmission of Acoustic Energy from Air to the Receptor and Transducer in the Cochlea: by L. Naftalin and M. Mattey of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Image Manipulation & Storage: a tutorial from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Printer and Painter Primary Colors: a collection of pictures and links relating color perception -- from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Austin State University.
Colour: bits and pieces about images by Paul Bourke.
Net Resources on Data Compression and Information Theory
The Squeeze Page
Information Theory Primer: a beautiful and "gentle" introduction to information theory by Thomas D. Schneider of the NIH Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
A Short Course in Information Theory: lecture notes (PostScript format) from a Cambridge University introductory course.
Technical Information - Information Theory: an extensive collection of web links prepared bt Ray Chiang (does not seem to be active at this time 09/01/99).
Entropy on the World Wide Web: an excellent collection of links, articles and tutorials on information theory, coding theory and related matters -- by Chris Hillman of the University of Washington.
Speech Coding: a excellent tutorial on speech and speech encoding from the Mobile Multimedia Research Group, University of Southampton.
The Early Days of Voice Synthesis: a old, but valuable Byte article which reviews speech concepts and various means for voice synthesis.
Pattern Recognition on the Web: an extensive collection of web links for a computer vision course at McGill University.
MPEG
An MPEG Primer from Digital Bitcasting
Understanding MPEG 2 Digital Video Compression
MPEG Technical Overview: from C-Cube Microsystems
The Philips MPEG Primer: from SOS Communications.
Information
Theory in Modem Practice: A very informative paper on applied
information theory. (Download this file and save as a postscript file
which may printed or read with a
postscript converter).
Electromagnetic
Phenomena: a recapitulation of electromagnetic theory from point of
people
interested in space flight -- from Caltech's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and supported by NSAS.
Time-Frequency Analysis: interesting examples of time-frequency analysis -- from the DSP Group at Rice University.
Applied Fourier Theory: lecture notes by Stephen Mahan.
Time Series Analysis: lecture notes on Fourier analysis -- from the European Southern Observatory.
EE4984:
Project
Reports: a nice collection of papers on communication technology --
from
the Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute
and State University.
Randy Katz' wonderful and downloadable introduction to wireless modulation: CS294-7: Digital Modulation
Phil Flikkema's concise and downloadable introduction: Overview of Modulation Techniques for Wireless.
Spread
Spectrum Data Communcation: a thesis by Darryl Smith at the
University of Technology, Sidney.
Spread Spectrum Communication Papers - Tutorial Papers: a collection of set of tutorials by Francisco Rodrigues-Henriquez.
Video Signal Formats: a simplified tutorial by Greg Rogers that discusses color encoding and the frequency interleaving of color and luminance information in the NTSC video system.
The Revolution in Television Technology: a exposition of new television technologies -- from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware.
A Guide to Digital Terrrestrial Television Broadcastin (DTTB): an extensive report of a International Telecommunications Union (ITU) study group.
The Number Game: an explication from AT&T of the North American telephone numbering system.
Bell Atlantic - Intelligent Network Tutorial: describes an evolution of the telephone network.
The Northwestern Tutorial: is an excellent introduction to electric circuit concepts (using hydraulic analogies) is found under the heading of Section D: Electrical Systems.
Geoffrey Welsh's Modem Page: lots of links to information about voice modems.
"WOW-COM.COM"News from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association
The ABCs of Communications Towers
Wireless Local Loop (WLL) Tutorial
Mobile Phone Technology at a Microscopic Level:
Signal System 7 (SS7) Tutorial:
How the Telephone System Works: from the NTT Digital Museum.
Telecommunications Transmission Technologies: leads to a "virtual textbook' for a 'web based, paperless course" at Worcester Polytech Institute.
The home page of High-Speed Networks TCP/IP and ATM Design Principles by William Stallings.
Whitepaper Subject Index: indexes an extensive collection of online "whitepapers" from 3Com on a variety of network subjects.
Welcome to EE 4984 - Telecommunication Networks: the home page of a course at Virginia Tech which list useful resources. See, in particular, the links to lots interesting student reports on network issues.
Internetworking Technology Overview: extensive information on internet issues from Cisco ?Systems.
Network Tutorial: a nice introduction to network issues produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology.
Standards (and Cross References): an extensive set of links dealing with network standards.
Allied Telesyn Glossary: a handy glossary of networking terms.
Under the hood of the Internet:
Dan Kegel's Fast Ethernet Page: an extensive collecton of web links.
Fast Ethernet Tutorial: from Dayna.
Ethernet vs. Token Ring: a concise tutorial by Ting Kwan Hung.
Gigabit and 100Mbps Ethernet Technology: Ethernet information by Donald Becker at NASA
The Gigabit Ethernet Overview - June 1998: a Gigabit Ethernet Alliance "whitepaper."
ATM Networks: a series of tutorials given by Professor Raj Jain.
ATM
Critique and
Tutorial Page: by James Sterbenz
Lightwave Index: An index to article of interest in the Penell magazine Lightwave.
The home page of Atlantic
Satellite South, Inc. lists several web links, but the tutorial All About Stellite TV
is particularly valuable.
LowEarth orbit microsatellites for data communications using small terminals
Iridium System Technology: links to information on Iridium technology.
Satellite Communication Systems and Technology (1993): a somewhat dated, but never-the-less valuable source of information from NASA.
From the Carl T. Jones
Corporation:
ElectromagneticSafety
Standards (HAARP Project)
CellularTowers, EMR, and Health Effects (from Julie Fournier)
EMF-LinkHome Page and EMF Health Report: two entry points to a subscriber service which deals with the health effects of electromagnetic fields.
Cellular Phone Antennas & Health FAQs: an extensive set of FAQs by John Moulder of the Medical College of Wisconsin.
IEEE Position Statement: on human exposure to radiofrequency fields from portable and mobile telephones and other communication devices.
HAARP Home Page: see "Safety Index"
Industry Snapshot: Telecommunication Services -- Hoover's Online