Innovation and the Communications Revolution: From the Victorian pioneers to broadband Internet

* Chapter 1: Introduction * Chapter 2: Creators of the mathematical and scientific foundations * Chapter 3: The first telegraph and cable engineers * Chapter 4: The first telephone engineers * Chapter 5: Inventors of the thermionic valve * Chapter 6: The telegraph-telephone frequency-division multiplex transmission engineers * Chapter 7: Pioneers of radio communication * Chapter 8: Pioneers of sound radio broadcasting * Chapter 9: Pioneers of television broadcasting * Chapter 10: The engineers of the early multi-channel telephony coaxial cable systems: the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable * Chapter 11: The first microwave radio-relay engineers * Chapter 12: The inventors of the transistor and the microchip: a world-wide revolution in electronics * Chapter 13: The creators of information theory, pulse-code modulation and digital techniques * Chapter 14: The pioneers of electro-mechanical and computer-controlled electronic exchange switching systems * Chapter 15: The first satellite communication engineers * Chapter 16: Pioneers of long-distance waveguide systems: an unfulfilled vision * Chapter 17: Pioneers of optical fibre communication systems: the first trans- Atlantic system * Chapter 18: Inventors of the visual telecommunication systems * Chapter 19: Information technology and services: data communication * Chapter 20: Growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web * Chapter 21: The development of the mobile radio service * Chapter 22: Telecommunications and the future