From Invention to Innovation : Long-Distance Telephone Transmission at the Turn of the Century

Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Very Good EX-LIBRARY (withdrawn from the AT&T Library, Middletown, NJ). Library markings on the endpapers. All other pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. With 22 portraits/illustrations and 12 figures. Tables. Graphs. Contains six major sections, as follows: 1) Introduction; 2) The Nineteenth Century Background; 3) The Formation of a Program of Research; 4) The Invention of Loading; 5) Implementation; 6) Innovation and Economics in the Bell Sysytem. Two appendices: a) Heaviside's Theory of Transmissions; b) The Simple Theory of Loaded Lines. List of chapter notes/sources (pp 131-152). Index. Bound in the original rust-color cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. A volume from the John Hopkins/AT&T Series in Telephone History edited by Louis Galambos. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. xxiii, 162pp.