SuitabookTelephones and mobiles
Tom Jackson
- Reading
- Read it as a timeline of connected ideas: pause at each major development, identify what changed, and ask how the technology enabled different ways to send voices, images or sounds.
- Themes
- Communication technology changing over time: The book follows communication from the telegraph and Morse code through telephones, mobile phones, smartphones and internet communication. The stated approach is informational, presenting major developments and explaining how technologies work and were improved.
- Worth knowing
- Some readers may benefit from support with technical ideas such as vibrations, wireless transmission and sending digital images or sounds; pause to connect each idea with familiar phone use.