Misunderstanding media /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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1986.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The once and future of telecommunications technologies
- A kind of glow
- The first television century. Part 1. Breakages limited. The past is prologue
- Phase one: scientific competence
- The first transformation: ideation
- Phase two: technological performance- prototypes
- The four classes of prototypes
- The second transformation: supervening necessity, the three broad types of supervening necessities
- Phase three: technological performance - invention
- The fifth class of prototype
- The third transformation: the ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential
- Phase four: technological performance - production, spin-offs, redundancies
- Necessities and constraints
- On Kuhn. Part 2. Fugitive pictures. Phase one: scientific competence. Monsieur Bequerel makes television possible, 1839
- The first transformation: ideation, Monsieur Senlecq invents the telectroscope, 1877
- Phase two: technological performance - prototypes
- Mr. Shelford Bidwell invents television, 1881
- ii. The second transformation: supervening necessity, the US Navy invents television in Lancaster, PA, 1945
- Phase three: technological performance - invention, Vladimir Zworykin invents television, 1923
- A rose by any other name
- First television camera
- The third transformation: the ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential, the FCC procrastinates about television, 1934-1952. The common good of all, 1934-1948
- Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, 1948-1952
- Phase four: technological performance-production, spin-off, redundancies, RCA produces television sets, Lansing, PA, 1947
- i. A spin-off - Bing Crosby invents videotape, 11 November 1951
- Redundancies - the non-laser videodisk, 1960; 8mm videotape, 1980
- A.N. Other invents the holographic moving image, ?1995?.
- Part. 3. ‘Inventions for casting up sums, very pretty’. Phase one: scientific competence, Monsieur Descartes renders the computer unthinkable, 1644
- The first transformation: ideation, Richard Clippinger invents the computer, January 1944
- Exactly the same sort of memory device
- Executed by steam
- Phase two: technological performance - prototypes, Pehr Georg Scheutz builds an engine, 1855
- The first statistical engineer
- Substituting brass for brain
- Sur l’automatique
- The use of high speed vacuum tubes
- We might have lost the war
- The second transformation: supervening necessity, Nicholas Metropolis needs a computer, 1946
- Phase three: technological performance - invention, William and Kilburn invent the computer, Manchester, UK, 21 June 1948
- The Hartree Constant
- The von Neumann Constant
- The third transformation: the ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential, Bryan Field needs a machine to make book, spring 1946
- Adventures in the skin trade
- A great feast of languages. Part 4. Digression - ‘The most remarkable technology’
- Phase one: scientific competence, Professor Braun invents the Cat’s Whisker, 1874
- i. The first transformation: ideation
- G.W.A. Dummer glimpses the integrated circuit, 1952
- Phase two: technological performance - prototypes Jack Kilby builds an integrated circuit, 1958
- The second transformation: supervening necessity Intel markets a IK RAM chip, 1968
- Phase three: technological performance- invention Ted Hoff invents the microprocessor, 1969
- The third transformation: the ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential, Reiss of Northrop makes an IBM CPC programme itself, 1951
- Phase four: technological performance - production, spin-offs, redundancies, Jonathan Titus invents the personal computer, July 1974.
- Part 5. Little Bird of Union and understanding. Phase one: scientific competence, Sir Isaac Newton defines an artificial satellite, 1687
- ‘The birthplace of rocket navigation’
- An experimental world-circling spaceship
- The first transformation: ideation, Herman Oberth invents a communications satellite, 1923
- Phase two: technological performance - prototypes the US Navy commanders the moon as a communication satellite, 1954
- The second transformation: supervening necessity BBC TV by facsimile transmission, obtains film of her Her Majesty’s arrival in America, October 1957
- Phase three: technological performance - invention William Rosen and Hudspeth invent the geostationary satellite, 1962
- The third transformation: the ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential, AT&T, PTT and Deutsche Bundespost open a transatlantic telephone cable, 1965
- The communications satellite corporation shall act as manager
- The dictates of their business judgement
- From ground station to home dish
- Phase four: technological performance - production, spin-offs, redundancies, Time Inc rents a satellite TV circuit, 1975. Part 6: Communicate by word of mouth.
- Phase one: scientific competence, Dr. Hooke invents the telephone, 1665
- The first transformation: ideation, Sir Charles Wheatstone invents the telephone, 1831
- Phase two: technological performance - prototypes, Herr Professor Philip Reiss invents the telephone, 1861
- ii. The second transformation: supervening necessity, Charles Williams Jr connects home and factory by telephone, April 1877
- Phase three: technological performance - invention, Thomas Edison invents the telephone, spring 1877
- The third transformation: the ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential, AT&T abandons telegraphy, 19 December 1913
- Phase four: technological performance - production, spin-offs, redundancies, John Walson invents cable television, Mahanoy City, PA, 1948. Conclusion. On babble
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- Misunderstanding media.