num_pages: 32
description: Early methods of long-distance communication (such as fire signal, flashing mirrors, semaphore, and African drums), the development of the spoken word, letter writing, telegraph and Morse code, telephone, radio, television, satellites and computers (including the Internet), and possibilitiesfor the future are all considered in this latest volume in the Signs of the Times series.
language: English
title: The Story of Communications
titlecomplete: The Story of Communications (Signs of the Times)
publisher: Oxford University Press