Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Toscano, Aaron A. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Sociology,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Philosophy.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Philosophy, general.

This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values—speed, efficiency, militarization,...