Abstract
This review of innovators and innovation in telecommunications and broadcasting systems has shown their evolution from the primitive beginnings of electrical science in the 18th century to the comprehensive, powerful, and worldwide communication systems of the late 20th century, which are now indispensable to the social and business worlds and the processes of government.1,2
Some of the material for this chapter was stimulated by the forward-looking “Innovation’94” symposium presented by British Telecom at their Martlesham Heath Laboratories in May, 1994.3
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Bray, J. (1995). Telecommunicators and the Future. In: The Communications Miracle. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6038-2_21
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