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The Early History Of Data Networks Paperback - 1994

by Holzmann, Gerard J.; Pehrson, Björn


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Most of us would consider the emergence of large-scale communication networks to be a twentieth-century phenomenon. The first nationwide data networks, however, were built almost two hundred years ago. At the end of the eighteenth century, well before the electromagnetic telegraph was invented, many countries in Europe had fully operational data communications systems, with altogether close to one thousand network stations.

This book gives a fascinating glimpse of the many documented attempts throughout history to develop effective means for long-distance communications. The oldest attempts date back to millennia before Christ, and include ingenious uses of homing pigeons, mirrors, flags, torches, and beacons.

The book then shows how Claude Chappe, a French clergyman, started the information revolution in 1794, with the design and construction of the first true telegraph network in France. Another chapter contains the first English translation of a remarkable document on the design of optical telegraphs networks, originally written in 1796 by the Swedish nobleman Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz.

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  • Title The Early History Of Data Networks
  • Author Holzmann, Gerard J.; Pehrson, Björn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 304
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, Los Alamitos, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 1994-12
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780818667824

About the author

Gerard J. Holzmann is a Dutch-born American computer scientist and researcher at Bell Labs and NASA, best known as the developer of the SPIN model checker. Bjrn Pehrson is the author of The Early History of Data Networks, published by Wiley.

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