Les Télécommunications
L'univers sans frontières
A popular survey of the history and technology of telecommunications, from its origins (Chappe's optical telegraph, the electric telegraph, the telephone) to contemporary networks: teleprinters and Telex, automatic and electronic exchanges, submarine cables, radio waves, then communication satellites (Echo, Telstar, Relay, Syncom, INTELSAT, Molniya) and broadcasting and television. The French translation, published by Larousse in its "Techniques d'aujourd'hui" series, of Ronald Brown's English book issued by Aldus Books in 1969; richly illustrated.