Contents

Contents : introduction -- EARLY COMMUNICATION (earliest recorded message - smoke signals and symbols -- writing -from stone and stylus to paper and pen -- moveable type -printing -- person to person - runners, newspapers and mail) -- ELECTRIC COMMUNICATIONS (Electric network - Morse code and the telegraph -- Voices over the wire - telephone -- Sound messages - from megaphone to CD -- Messages without wires - radio) -- ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (The glass eye - television -- into the unknown - communication satellites -- worldwide link-up - computer communications -- the future of communications - science fiction becomes reality) -- TIMELINE-MAIN COMMUNICATION EVENTS AND INVENTIONS -- glossary -- references -- index.