Mercurians:
Suggested Books on Communications History

A History of Broadcasting in the United States
Barnouw, Erik
3 volumes(1970)

A Phone of our Own: The Deaf Insurrection against Ma Bell
Harry G. Lang
Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2000

Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing
*Pamela Walker Laird
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

Antonio Meucci - L'Inventore e il suo Tempo - Da Firenze a L'Avana
(Vol. 1) [IN ITALIAN]
*Basilio Catania
Seat Publications, Turin (Italy) 1994

Antonio Meucci - L'Inventore e il suo Tempo - New York 1850-1871
(Vol. 2) [IN ITALIAN]
*Basilio Catania
Seat Publications, Turin (Italy) 1996

Antonio Meucci: L'Inventore e il suo Tempo
(2 VOLS)
*Basilio Catania
Edizioni Seat, Turin, 1994 & 1996

At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture
Kathryn H. Fuller
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996

Atlas Histórico de las Comunicaciones en España, 1700-1998
Ángel Bahamonde Magro, Gaspar Martínez Lorente, and Luis Enrique Otero Carvajal
Correos y Telégrafos, Madrid, 1998

Beyond the Ionosphere: Fifty Years of Satellite Communication
*Andrew J. Butrica
NASA History Series, SP-4217.
U.S. Governmant Printing House
Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop SSOP
Washington, DC 20402-9328
NASA, 1997

Brass-Pounders: Young Telegraphers of the Civil War
Alvin F. Harlow
Denver: Sage Books, 1962

Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society (Second Edition)
Edited by David Crowley and Paul Heyer
White Plains, N.Y.: Longman Publishers, 1995

Communication Satellites 1958-1995
Donald H. Martin
TK 5104.M368 1958-95, Copyright 1996
AIAA Publications Customer Service
9 Jay Gould Court
P. O. Box 753
Waldorf, MD 20604

Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
*JoAnne Yates
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, 1993

Cybercities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communications
M. Christine Boyer
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996

Der "Transistor" als technisches und kulturelles Phnomen: Die Transistorisierung der Radio- und Fernsehempfnger in der deutschen Rundfunkindustrie von 1955 bis 1965
Andreas Fickers
Bassum: Verlag fr Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 1998

Early Television: A Bibliographic Guide to 1940
Edited by George Shiers and May Shiers
New York: Garland, 1996

Entreprise, technologie, et souverainet: Les tecommunications transatlantiques de la France (XIXe-XXe sicles)
*Pascal Griset
Paris: Editions Rive Droite, 1996

Everything Happened Around the Switchboard
Michael R. Hathaway
Conway, NH: Reflection Publications, 1996

Excursión A La Electrónica
*José Altshuler
Editorial Científico-Técnica, La Habana, 1984

Exposición Histórica De Las Telecomunicaciones
José María Romeo López (Ed.)
Secretaría General de Comunicaciones, Madrid, 1990

Getting the Message Through: A Branch History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps
*Rebecca Robbins Raines
Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1996

Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology
Peter Hugill
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life
Diane Zimmerman Umble
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Inside Western Union
Maurice Joseph (Mike) Rivise
New York: Sterling Pub. Co., 1950

Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1850-1990
Edited by Lena Andersson-Skog and Ollie Krantz
Canton, Mass.: Watson Publising International, 1999

The Invention of Communication
Armand Mattelart, trans. Susan Emanuel
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996

Inventing The Internet
*Janet Abbate
MIT Press, 1999

Las Telecomunicaciones En Hispanoamérica:
Pasado, Presente Y Futuro
Various Asociación Hispanoamericana de Centros de Investigación y Empresas de Telecomunicaciones (AHCIET), Madrid, 1993

Les Telecommunications Transatlantiques De La France
Pascal Griset
(XIXe-XXe SIECLES) Paris: Rive Droite, 1996

Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 18601-890
Erik Baark
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997

Los días cubanos de Antonio Meucci y el nacimiento de la telefonía
[In Spanish]
*Basilio Catania, Fernando Ortiz (José Altshuler and Roberto Díaz Editors)
Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA) y Sociedad Cubana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (SCHCT), La Habana, 1998

Los Días Cubanos De Antonio Meucci Y El Nacimiento De La Telefonía
*José Altshuler and Roberto Díaz Martín (Eds.)
Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba, S.A./ Sociedad Cubana de Historia de la Ciencia y La Tecnología, La Habana, 1998

Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930
Gregory A. Waller
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995

My Sisters Telegraphic : Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950
Thomas C. Jepsen
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000

Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben
Los Alamitos, CA
IEEE Computer Society Press
May 1997
ISBN 0-8186-7706-6
Library of Congress Number 97-5920

Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America
*David Morton
Rutgers University Press, forthcoming (February 2000)

Old Wires and New Waves
Alvin F. Harlow
New York: Arno Press, 1936

Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States
Thomas Streeter
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Signal Processing: The Emergence of a Discipline, 1948 to 1998
*Frederik Nebeker
IEEE History Center, 1998

Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
*Richard R. John,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995; paperback, 1998

Telecommunications Competition: The Last Ten Miles
Ingo Vogelsang and Bridger M. Mitchell
Cambridge, Mass. and Washington, D.C.: MIT Press and AEI Press, 1997

The American Telegrapher : A Social History. 1860-1900
Edwin Gabler
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988

The IEEE Signal Processing Society: Fifty Years of Service, 1948 to 1998
*Frederik Nebeker
IEEE History Center, 1998

The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications And International Politics, 1851-1945
* Daniel R. Headrick
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991

The Nature Of The Book: Print And Knowledge In The Making
Adrian Johns
Chicago: U.C. Pr., 1998

The Story of Telecommunications
George P. Oslin
Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1992

The Telegraph : A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the
United States
Lewis Coe
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1993

Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experience with Communications Technologies
Gladys D. Ganley
Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1996

Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection, and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System
Milton L. Mueller Jr.
Cambridge, Mass. and Washington, D.C.: MIT Press and AEI Press, 1997

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story Of The Telegraph And The Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers
Tom Standage
New York, 1998

Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Harper, 1999

Zworykin, Pioneer of Television
Albert Abramson
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995

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Books at websites

There is a list of telegraphy books on the Morse Magazine's web page at
http://www.morsum.demon.co.uk

Netizens:On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben
IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997
(Also a draft is available online at http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/)

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Books on history of computing

History of Computing: An Encyclopedia of the People and Machines that Made Computer History
Mark W. Greenia

A History of Modern Computing
Paul E. Ceruzzi
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1998

Engines of the Mind : The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors
Joel N. Shurkin

Computer : A History of the Information Machine
(The Sloan Technology Series)
Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray (Contributor)

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing
William Aspray
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1990

The Microprocessor : A Biography
(Silicon Valley Series)
Michael S. Malone

Howard Aiken : Portrait Of A Computer Pioneer
I. Bernard Cohen
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1999

Innovating For Failure : Government Policy And The Early British Computer Industry
John Hendry
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1989

Building IBM : Shaping An Industry And Its Technology
Emerson W. Pugh
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995

IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems
Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1991

A History Of Computing In The Twentieth Century : A Collection Of Essays
N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, editors
New York : Academic Press, 1980

A History Of Computing Technology (revised edition)
Michael R. Williams
Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society Press, c1997