Communications in Space

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Enthusiastic Endorsement for
COMMUNICATIONS IN SPACE
V. K. Zworykin, television pioneer, inventor of the iconoscope
as television's camera "eye/' and developer of the kinescope—the
picture tube that made television all-electronic:
Orrin Dunlap tells us the fascinating story of electrical communica-
tion from the first beginnings in Maxwell's theory to the present
worldwide communication system of sound and sight, fanning out
into space by means of satellites and space probes. This is however no
dry technical account. It is full of historical sidelights and human
interest stories which make it difficult to lay the book down before
it has been read to its very end.
Alfred N. Goldsmith, veteran radio engineer and inventor of
the color television picture tube:
Eminent among successful science writers is Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr.
His present work is a rare combination of appealing simplicity and
disarmingly clear analysis of some of the wonders of modern science.
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Enthusiastic Endorsement for
COMMUNICATIONS IN SPACE
V. K. Zworykin, television pioneer, inventor of the iconoscope
as television's camera "eye/' and developer of the kinescope—the
picture tube that made television all-electronic:
Orrin Dunlap tells us the fascinating story of electrical communica-
tion from the first beginnings in Maxwell's theory to the present
worldwide communication system of sound and sight, fanning out
into space by means of satellites and space probes. This is however no
dry technical account. It is full of historical sidelights and human
interest stories which make it difficult to lay the book down before
it has been read to its very end.
Alfred N. Goldsmith, veteran radio engineer and inventor of
the color television picture tube:
Eminent among successful science writers is Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr.
His present work is a rare combination of appealing simplicity and
disarmingly clear analysis of some of the wonders of modern science.
He successfully carries the reader through the intricacies of a thrilling
epic of today. . . . Mr. Dunlap has produced not only an instructive
Historical narrative but also an absorbing and exciting story. . . .
John Hays Hammond, Jr., inventor and pioneer in radio-guided
vehicles and missiles:
I am greatly impressed with Communications in Space. Its historical
scope and accuracy make it unique, I think, in the literature relating
to this art. Mr. Dunlap's wide experience as a journalist has enabled
him to assess the social impact of the many inventions he describes,
and this gives his book a vitality which should be of great interest
to the general public.
COMMUNICATIONS
IN SPACE
From Wireless to Satellite Relay
ORRIN E. DUNLAP, JR.
Here is the epic story of communica-
tions in space by a man whose lifetime
has been devoted to tracking the course
of the scientific discoveries that made
possible John Glenn's triumphant
flight into space in 1962.
The book begins with the discovery
of electro-magnetic waves and the elec-
tron, advancing with radio, television,
and radar to the sophisticated satellite
relay systems that are extending man's
contact with man and are exploring the
universe around him.
This story of space technology un-
folds against the historic background
and achievements of such pioneers as
Marconi and Zworykin, deForest and
Shockley, Tesla and Townes—the in-
novations responsible for the alliance
of astro-electronics and astronautics
that have ushered in the Space Age.
The book tells how giant radio- Vissza