Title: From talking drums to the Internet : an encyclopedia of communications technology /
Authors: Gardner, Robert, 1929-2017; Shortelle, Dennis.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Communication and technology Dictionaries.
Abstract: From Talking Drums to the Internet is the story of the human quest to communicate more effectively. It reaches far back into prehistory to explore cave paintings, hieroglyphics, and smoke signals - all technological giant steps in their day. But the volume focuses primarily on the twentieth century, when the pace of innovation became an explosion and we progressed from listening to radio early in the century to watching color television at the halfway point to attempting communication with extraterrestrials at the approach of the second millennium.