1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392414603316

Autore

Powell Griffith <1561-1620.>

Titolo

Analysis analyticorum posteriorum sive librorum Aristotelis de demonstratione [[electronic resource] ] : in qua singula capita per quæstiones & responsiones perscipuè exponuntur: adhibitis quibusdam scholiis, ex optimis quibusq[ue] interpretibus de sumptis, operâ & studio G.P. Oxoniensis confecta & edita in vsum iuniorum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxoniæ, : Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, M. D. XCIIII. [1594]

Descrizione fisica

[16], 108, 108-162, 164-241, 245-246, 257-279, [2], 280-344, [1] p

Soggetti

Science - Methodology

Logic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: Griffinus Powel.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Formerly STC 756.

Identified as STC 756 on UMI microfilm, reel 167.

Some print show-through.

Reproductions of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Appears at reel 167 and at reel 1527 (both are Bodleian copy).

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783796503321

Autore

Rens Jean-Guy <1946->

Titolo

The invisible empire [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the telecommunications industry in Canada, 1846-1956 / / Jean-Guy Rens ; translated by Käthe Roth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-282-85863-7

9786612858635

0-7735-6844-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RothKäthe

Disciplina

384/.0971

Soggetti

Telecommunication - Canada - History

Télécommunications - Canada - Histoire

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: L'empire invisible.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-377) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Pioneering Era: Inventions and Impediments, 1846–1915 -- Telegraphy -- The Birth of Telegraphy -- The Telegraph Industry Gets Organized -- The Telephone -- Invention of the Telephone -- The Telephone Comes to Canada -- Bell Comes Out Fighting -- Balkanization of the Telephone Industry -- The Birth of Northern Electric and Technological Advances -- Unbridled Capitalism and Language Clashes -- The Telephone Industry in Canada and the International Scene -- Radio -- Radio: A Spectacular Success -- Creating Universal Service, 1915–56 -- Creation of a National Industry -- Bell’s Long March to Independence -- The Other Telephone Companies -- Social Benefits and Labour Peace in the Telephone Industry -- The Canadian Regulatory Model -- Electromechanical Technology Hits Its Peak -- The International Scene -- Conclusion: How Telephony Changed the World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

It is impossible to understand Canada without looking at the history and development of its telecommunications industry. In the nineteenth century Canada was the only country in the world constructed on the basis of technology - first the railway and, in its shadow, telegraphy. In



the 1930s this technological nationalism came of age and telecommunications became Canada's "national" technology. The Invisible Empire provides the first overview of Canadian telecommunications, from the laying of the first telegraph line between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846 to the separation between Nortel - then known as Northern Electric - and the American Bell System in 1956. Rens shows us that Louis Riel was beaten as much by telegraphy as by the Canadian army, and how Bell Canada - then known as Bell Telephone - escaped nationalization by Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government. He follows the construction of the first trans-Canadian telephone line in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s and explains why, in the context of the Cold War, Canada built an electronic Great Wall of China in the far North. Rens examines the context that allowed the telecommunications industry to take hold so successfully in Canada and explores how the industry grew so quickly and managed to escape American domination. He situates Canadian accomplishments in telecommunications by comparing them with those of other countries.