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    Masters of Space
    Masters of Space
    Masters of Space
    Audiobook5 hours

    Masters of Space

    Written by Walter Kellogg Towers

    Narrated by Multiple - LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the technical and commercial fields, they succeeded in flashing both messages and speech around the world, with wires and without wires. It is the story of how the thought of the world has been linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and, most recently, the wireless telephone. (From Preface) - Summary by Walter Kellogg Towers
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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