Table of Contents:
  • Conté: The telegraph
  • Before the speaking telephone
  • The capture of sound
  • Wireless and radio
  • Mechanically scanned television
  • Electronically scanned television
  • Television spin-offs and redundancies
  • Mechanising calculation
  • The first computers
  • Supressing the main frames
  • The integrated circuit
  • The coming of the microcomputer
  • The beginnings of networks
  • Networks and recording technologies
  • Communications satellites
  • The satellite era
  • Cable television
  • The Internet