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Voice Across the Sea

by Arthur C. Clarke

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    How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village by Arthur C. Clarke (Anonymous user)
    Anonymous user: This later work contains most chapters from the 1974 Revised Edition of Voice Across the Sea, but brings the subject up-to-date (up to c1992, that is) with a lot of new material on communication satellites and fibre optics. Much of the latter had also appeared in other books by Clarke, yet this one, despite plenty of repetition, holds up together pretty well. It may be regarded as Clarke's magnum opus on communications. (The Appendix contains his famous 1945 paper in which he was the first to propose in print geostationary satellites for worldwide telephone and TV coverage.)… (more)
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A very interesting story about the laying of trans-Atlantic cables first for telegraphic and later for telephone use.

Arthur Clarke has a unique ability to make a rather dry subject into an great read. I especially liked the first half of the book when science advancement was due to the genius of individual scientists rather than the group efforts of modern days. I was surprised to learn how mathematicians were so important in the development of the cables.

The book is entertaining with a conversational discussion of every aspect from inventor to stories of the trials and tribulation the implementation of the technology. The last 50 or so pages seem dull to me as there was less drama and his emphasis on the "modern" vacuum tube technology techniques and manufacture seem a bit amusing at times. But then this was the birth of electronics as we now know it and in 1958 when this was written it was rocket science.

Fascinating informative read with excellent illustrations. ( )
1 vote Lynxear | Jun 4, 2012 |
Very interesting read about the history of ocean telegraph and telephone cables. ( )
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