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Kanonisk navn
James E. Homans
Juridisk navn
James Edward Homans
Andre navne
Robert C. Webb
Fødselsdato
1865
Dødsdag
1949
Køn
male
Nationalitet
USA
Uddannelse
Harvard University

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What an interesting book this is! I collect ephemera as well, and one of my favorites is a piece that was given out with the dial phone, when it first came out, with specific instructions as to how it worked. In another fifty years, those instructions may become useful again. An odd thing about this book is that Chapter One is contained within the preface (and is part of the Roman numeral numbered pages). Chapter Two begins with Page 1.

It's a layman's introduction to telephony, more approachable than Claude Shannon's work, although not for someone unskilled in the sciences and in math. It contains interesting things like how the mouth makes sounds, and explanations of how the mechanics of the phone work, in addition to the mathematics behind things.

Homans died in 1949, when Shannon was publishing his seminal work on Information Theory.
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Værker
12
Medlemmer
50
Popularitet
#316,248
Vurdering
½ 4.7
Anmeldelser
2
ISBN
6

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