Vol. 12, No. 1
November 1999
Editorial: Seduced by a "First'
Nina Wormbs wins Robinson Prize
Information Networks and Urban Spaces
Book Review:
Science in Public
Lemelson Center Fellows Program
News of the Field:
Printing History on the Web
What can "Old Technologies" Teach us about Digital Culture?
Recent and Upcoming Conferences
EXTRA!
Telephone Collectors International
SHOT Session Query: Mechanical to Electrical
History of Telecommunications Technology: An Annotated Bibliography by Christopher H. Sterling and George Shiers is due from Scarecrow Press ( Lanham, MD) in early 2000. A substantially updated and revised and reorganized edition of Shiers’s Bibliography of the History of Electronics (Scarecrow, 1972), it focuses on telecommunications and adds many new subject areas. About 1,500 entries cover general reference works, serial publications, general surveys, institutional and company history, biographies of inventors and engineers, telegraphy, telephony, electromagnetic waves, radio, electroacoustics and recording, electron tubes and solid state devices, television, newer media technologies, transmission (mobile, satellite, and fiber optics, and the Internet), and Internet resources.
Shiers (1908-1983) was a California-based technical freelance author with several books and a host of telecommunications technology history articles to his credit. Sterling is a member of the George Washington University faculty, editor of Communication Booknotes Quarterly and more than a dozen books including Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting.
For further information contact Shirley Lambert, editor, Scarecrow Press, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706, 301-459-3366; fax 301-459-2118; slambert@scarecrowpress.com.