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Tables of Contents for A History of Telegraphy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
xiii
 
List of tables
xvii
 
Preface
xviii
 
Abbreviations
xxi
 
PART 1 -- TERRESTRIAL TELEGRAPHY
1
180
Things mechanical
3
17
Shutter systems
4
2
Chappe's telegraph
6
2
Popham and the Admiralty installation
8
6
Some semaphore systems in Europe
14
2
Semaphore in the United States
16
1
Operations
17
3
References
18
2
Early electrical ideas
20
31
Electrostatic devices
20
2
Electrochemical devices
22
2
The `needle' telegraphs
24
6
Cooke and Wheatstone
30
4
Telegraphy on the railways
34
6
Dial telegraphs
40
7
Codes and ciphers
47
4
References
49
2
Commercial telegraphy
51
51
Morse and single-line working
51
6
Telegraph companies in the United States
57
12
Development in Britain
69
4
The Telegraph Acts of 1868--69
73
8
The Electric & International Telegraph Company
74
3
The British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
77
1
The London & District Telegraph Company
77
1
The United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company
78
1
The Universal Private Telegraph Company
79
1
The Reuter's Telegram Company
80
1
The Exchange Telegraph Company
80
1
Faster, cheaper telegrams
81
4
Recording and printing
85
5
Overhead or underground?
90
4
Telegraphy in British India
94
8
References
99
3
Military operations
102
32
War in the Crimea
103
5
The Indian Mutiny
108
2
The American Civil War
110
5
European conflicts
115
2
African colonial wars
117
9
The Nile and Egyptian campaigns
119
3
The Boer War
122
4
Early British Army telegraph training
126
1
The Telegraph Battalion
126
1
The Society of Telegraph Engineers
127
1
British Army signalling
128
6
References
132
2
Submarine cables
134
47
Leaving the land
134
1
Gutta-percha
135
3
Crossing the Channel
138
4
The Siberian Telegraph
142
5
Oceanic cables
147
1
Theory and techniques
148
6
Loading
151
1
Sensitive detectors
152
2
Atlantic crossing
154
2
Links to South America
156
2
Cable-laying technology
158
2
A Committee of Inquiry
160
2
A Cable to India...
162
6
...and further East
168
3
The Australian connection
171
3
The world encompassed
174
7
References
178
3
PART 2 -- AERIAL TELEGRAPHY
181
224
Marconi and the experimenters
183
41
Beginnings
184
2
Marconi
186
4
Transatlantic attempt
190
2
Spark and arc
192
12
`Short spark' operation
194
6
The electric arc
200
1
The high-frequency alternator
201
1
Frequency multiplication
202
2
Production and power
204
20
The `Marconi system'
206
2
Marconi high-power stations
208
2
Duplex working
210
1
Telefunken and Siemens
210
5
Keying at high power
215
1
Continuous waves in the United States
215
6
References
221
3
Telegraphy for peace...
224
42
The advent of thermionics
225
6
Detection
225
2
Amplification and oscillation
227
2
Transmission
229
2
Linking the Empire
231
9
Cable and wireless
238
2
Reuters and the news service
240
1
Maritime communication
240
8
Wireless training in the merchant navy
244
2
Codes, telegrams and newspapers at sea
246
2
Life-saving at sea
248
6
International agreements
254
3
Civil aviation
257
3
The role of amateurs
260
6
References
262
4
...and at war
266
42
Army wireless before 1914
267
1
War on the ground, 1914--18
268
16
Wireless direction-finding
269
3
Trench warfare
272
4
Wireless at the front
276
5
Two military engagements
281
3
The inter-war years
284
1
War on the ground, 1939--45
285
9
Line working
286
2
The African campaigns
288
1
Communication systems
289
3
Across the Channel
292
2
Army wireless in the Second World War
294
10
Allied wireless equipment
296
5
German Army wireless
301
3
British Army training and recruitment
304
4
References
305
3
Military telegraphy at sea
308
40
Wireless experiments at sea
308
6
War at sea, 1914--18
314
10
Shipboard wireless equipment
317
5
The Naval wireless telegraph network
322
1
Cable operations
323
1
The shore stations
324
3
The inter-war years
327
2
War at sea, 1939--45
329
11
Allied wireless equipment
333
4
German wireless equipment
337
3
Cable ships and cables
340
2
British naval wireless training
342
6
References
345
3
Military telegraphy in the air
348
41
The dirigible
348
2
War in the air, 1914--18
350
15
British airborne equipment
353
6
Training telegraphists for air operations
359
1
American airborne equipment
360
2
German airborne equipment
362
3
The inter-war years
365
5
Use of shorter wavelengths
367
2
The 1929 development programme
369
1
War in the air, 1939--45
370
13
British airborne equipment
371
5
American airborne equipment
376
1
German airborne equipment
377
6
RAF wireless training
383
6
References
386
3
Epilogue
389
16
The demise of Morse
389
1
High-speed telegraphy
390
1
Baudot and the new codes
391
8
Keyboard machines
396
1
The teleprinter
397
1
Military use of the teleprinter
398
1
Telegram, telex and the telephone
399
4
The telex service
399
2
Telephony by submarine cable and satellite
401
2
The digital revolution
403
2
References
404
1
Index
405