Kingstown Regatta, 90
Kirchhoff, Gustav, 33, 53
Kleinrock, Leonard, 195
Kuhn, Thomas, 223
Lamarr, Hedy, 165–66
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 19
Le Monnier, Louis-Guillaume, 8
Lee, William C.Y., 195
Leeuwenhoek, Anton Van, 9
Lesage, Georges-Louis, 62
Leyden jar, 8, 10, 13, 29, 46, 49, 50, 51, 49–52, 54, 55, 54–56, 91, 236
Linux Mobile, 202
Lodge, Oliver, 33, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 46–52, 58, 59, 60, 84, 85, 88, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 98, 248, 249
Logie Baird, John, 141
Long term evolution (LTE), 214, 236, 242
Lorentz, Hendrik, 52
Low earth orbit (LEO), 206
Lucent Technologies, 199
Manzetti, Innocenzo, 78
Marconi Wireless Company, 92
Marconi, Guglielmo, 2–3, 18, 83–99, 131, 149, 209
Marcus, Michael, 202
Marischal College, 34, 35
Maskelyne, Nevil, 96
Matteucci, Carlo, 17
Maxwell, James Clerk, 2, 18, 27, 32–46
Maxwell’s demon, 36
McCaw, Craig, 183, 206
MediaFLO, 214
Meissner, Alexander, 138
Meucci, Antonio, 78
Michelson-Morley experiment, 39, 51, 52
Microwaves, 45, 46, 241
MIMO, 209–12, 237, 238, 243
Mobile telephone service (MTS), 157, 158, 171, 176, 239
Mobile TV, 214, 236
Moore’s Law, 164, 185, 188
Morse code, 42, 50, 67, 69, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 93, 96, 99, 103, 108, 112, 126, 132, 150, 235, 236, 238
Morse, Samuel F.B., 2, 31, 61–74
Motorola, 129, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 170, 173, 175, 176, 178, 181, 182, 183, 184, 186, 188, 199, 206, 250
Muirhead, Alexander, 88, 95
Multipath propagation, 208, 209, 210, 233, 240, 241
Musschenbroek, Pieter van, 8, 11
Nakamura, Hideyoshi, 205
Nally, Edward J., 133
Napoleon, 15, 16, 21
Narrowband radio, 108, 125, 126, 182, 191, 194, 197, 203, 223, 234, 237
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 138
National Electric Signaling Company (NESCO), 105, 106, 107, 109, 110
National Television System Committee (NTSC), 146
Near field communications (NFC), 217, 237
New York University, 64
Newton, Isaac, 5, 9, 18, 19
Nextel, 183
Nicholson, Madison, 167
Nipkow, Paul, 141
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), 178
Noble, Dan, 145, 154, 155, 246
Nokia, 173–75
Nollet, Abbé, 8, 11
Nordic mobile telephone (NMT), 174, 179, 181, 237
Nuance T9, 220
Nyquist, Harry, 188
O’Brien, Morgan, 182
Oersted, Hans Christian, 23, 62
Ohl, Russell, 161
Oki Electric, 178
Operating systems, real time and high level, 202, 207, 235
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), 210, 211, 212, 215, 237, 238, 243
Oscillators, 56, 116, 121, 124, 125, 128, 129, 162, 230, 241
Paging, 149, 151, 158, 172, 239
Paley, William, 139
Parkinson, Bradford W., 205
Patent caveat, 66, 78, 238
Paulraj, Arogyaswami, 209
Pavia, University of, 6, 11, 12, 15
Peel, Robert, 30
Pera, Marcello, 13
Personal area network (PAN), 203, 238
Personal communications service (PCS), 181, 182, 199, 200, 238, 247
Personal digital assistant (PDA), 203, 238, 239, 240
Philco, 136, 144, 146, 154
Phonofilm, 117
Photoelectric effect, 56, 60, 143, 167, 228, 238
Pico-projector, 219
Popper, Karl, 223
Poulsen, Valdemar, 104
Preece, William H., 80, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 94, 95
Pseudorandom code, 166, 196, 231, 239, 240
Pupin, Michael, 119
Push-to-talk (PTT), 150, 183
Qualcomm, 195, 196, 198, 199, 200, 201, 206, 211, 227, 242, 248
Radio Act of 1912, 97, 171
Radio common carrier (RCC), 172, 239
Rake receiver, 197
Raleigh, Greg, 208–11
Raney, John, 167
Rankine, William John Macquorn, 37
RCA, 92, 110, 119, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 151, 155
Reactance, 49
Regeneration, 120
Regenerative receiver, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 239
Rheotome, 76
Rice, Stephen O., 188
Riebau, George, 20
Righi, Augusto, 84
Ring, Douglas H., 169–70
RMS Titanic, 97, 110, 132, 133, 134, 171
Ronalds, Francis, 62
Röntgen, Wilhelm, 59, 120
Royal Institution, 20, 21, 24, 30, 96
Royal Society, 6, 12, 16, 24, 27, 33, 34, 35
Ruhmkorff coil, 56
Rumford medal, 35, 52
Sandemanians, 20, 21
SanDisk, 220
Sarnoff, David, 3, 130–48
SCR-300, 155, 170
Semiconductors, 155, 161, 162, 163, 164, 171, 203, 235, 240, 242
Shannon, Claude, 188–89
Shelley, Mary, 15
Shift registers, 196
Shockley, William, 161, 162, 163, 164
Siegel, Daniel M., 40
Sigaud de la Fond, Joseph-Aignan, 8
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), 126, 240
Silliman, Benjamin, 63, 68
Slaby, Adolphus, 88
Smart antennas, 184, 208, 209, 210
Smithsonian Institution, 22, 31, 73, 248
Soemmering, S.T., 16, 62
Sony Electronics, 164
Spark radio, 3, 5, 27, 45, 49, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 85, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 119, 120, 188, 230, 231, 240, 241, 243
Specialized mobile radio (SMR), 182, 240
Spread spectrum, 151, 165, 166, 167, 195, 196, 197, 202, 203, 224, 230, 231, 234, 237, 241, 243
Star topology, 157
Star Trek, 218
Static electricity, 28, 241
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 105
Sturgeon, William, 64
Superheterodyne, 118, 121, 122, 123, 124, 129, 138, 150, 170, 236, 238, 241
Sylvania Buffalo, 167
Symbian, 202
Syntony, 50, 52, 91, 95
Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 10
Teledesic, 206
Telegraph, 2, 3, 7, 16, 31, 58, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 83, 85, 87, 89, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 108, 117, 131, 132, 135, 138, 149, 159, 224, 227, 232, 236, 237, 240, 241
Telephone, 2, 3, 7, 48, 58, 61, 74, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 101, 107, 114, 119, 149, 157, 158, 159, 160, 169, 172, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 180, 183, 186, 187, 188, 191, 202, 230, 231, 237, 242
Tesla, Nikola, 50, 97, 105, 116, 165, 246
Texas Instruments, 164, 171, 201, 219
Thales, 7
Third generation (3G) cellular, 3, 187, 192, 193, 200, 201
Thomson, J.J., 51
Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin), 30, 34, 37, 42, 50, 55, 72, 79, 89
Time division multiple access (TDMA), 191, 192, 194, 200, 206, 234, 242, 243
Total access communications system (TACS), 181
Transistors, 129, 151, 155, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 170, 171, 173
Triode, 113, 115, 121, 124, 162, 229, 242, 243
Trunked radio, 151, 158, 242
Tse, David, 209
Tyndall, John, 30, 47
Uddenfeldt, Jan, 192
Ultra mobile broadband (UMB), 214, 242
Ultra wideband (UWB), 3, 217–18
United Fruit Company, 106
Universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS), 193
University College, Liverpool, 48
Vacuum tube, 51, 96, 103, 104, 108, 112, 116, 118, 121, 129, 134, 135, 140, 143, 148, 162, 164, 165, 167, 173, 229, 230, 232, 238, 239, 242, 243
Vail, Alfred, 31, 66
Vail, Theodore N., 80
Valli, Eusebio, 15
Verdu, Sergio, 209
Virtual retinal display (VRD), 219
Viterbi algorithm, 189, 190
Viterbi, Andrew, 3, 189–90
Vocoders, 194, 243
Volta, Alessandro, 2, 6–7, 11–17, 21, 28
Voltaic pile, 6, 7, 16, 20, 21
Vringo, 214
Walsh, John, 10
Watson, Thomas A., 77
Watson, William, 8
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard, 41, 53, 62
Wesley, John, 8–9
Western Electric, 114, 129, 138, 140, 155, 172
Westinghouse, 101, 102, 110, 122, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140
Wheatstone, Charles, 26, 62, 75
Whewell, William, 31, 42
White, Abraham, 114
Wideband CDMA (WCDMA), 200, 201, 212
Wideband radio, 3
Wiener, Norbert, 188, 189, 249
Wi-Fi, 186, 203, 215, 216
WiMAX, 213–15, 238, 243
Winckler, Johann Heinrich, 62
Windows Mobile, 202
Winters, Jack, 209
Wireless local area networks, 3, 46, 203, 208, 209, 210, 211, 224, 231, 241
Wollaston, William Hyde, 24
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, 167
Yale College, 63
Young, Owen D., 136
Young, Thomas, 26, 35, 49
Young, W. Rae, 169
Zworykin, Vladimir, 142
Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS), 178, 181, 182, 184, 186, 194, 195, 197, 201, 229, 231, 242
Air interface, 191, 201, 207, 229, 231
Airgo Networks, 210, 211, 212
Albany Institute, 23
Aldini, Giovanni, 15
Alexanderson, Ernst, 107, 127
Alternating current (AC), 49, 101, 104, 106, 115, 120, 231, 235, 237, 239
Amateur radio, 3, 94, 97, 115, 117, 119, 122, 133, 135
American Radio Telephone Service, 181
Ameritech, 181
Ampère, André-Marie, 21, 23, 31, 32, 38, 40, 43, 229
Amplitude modulation (AM), 103, 126, 236
Analog radio, 182, 184, 191
Antheil, George, 165
Apple Computer, 219
Apreece, Jane, 21
Arc transmitter, 104, 109
ARC-50, 167
Armstrong, Edwin H., 3, 18, 118–29
Audion, 3, 115, 116, 120, 124, 125, 229, 247
Ayrton, William, 95, 176, 186
Bacon, Francis, 222
Bardeen, John, 162, 163, 164
Barlow, Peter, 27
Bayonne, New Jersey Police Department, 150
Beccaria, Cesare, 11
Beck, T. Romeyn, 22
Bell Laboratories, 125, 128, 140, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 170, 176, 183, 184, 201
Bell, Alexander Graham, 2, 48, 75–82
Berlin Academy, 45, 53, 54
Bernoulli, Daniel, 36
Blaupunkt, 153
Bluetooth, 186, 203, 204, 217, 224, 230
Bois-Reymond, Emil du, 17
Bologna, University of, 9, 10, 84
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 36, 53
Boscovich, Rudjer Josip, 22
Bose, Jagadis Chandra, 97, 108
Bose, John, 127
Branly, Edouard, 59, 85, 90, 115
Brattain, Walter, 161, 162, 163, 164
Braun, Karl, 97
British Broadcasting Company, 139
Broadcom, 212
Caldani, Leopoldo, 9, 10
Calzecchi Onesti, Temistocle, 85
Cambridge University, 34, 249
Campbell-Swinton, Alan Archibald, 141
Capacitance, 29, 31, 50, 55, 57, 58, 239
Carradori, Giovacchino, 14
Carson, John Renshaw, 125, 126
Cell handoffs, 169, 176, 192
Cellular telephone, 4, 46, 158, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 191, 194, 195, 199, 202, 227, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 237
Chemical History of a Candle, 30
Chladni figures, 27
Chladni, Ernst, 26
Cisco Systems, 210
Clarity Wireless, 210, 215
Clarke, Arthur C., 1
Clausius, Rudolf, 36
Cleveland Police Department, 150
Code division multiple access (CDMA), 186, 187, 194, 195, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 206, 207, 227, 230, 232, 235, 242
Coherer, 59, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90, 91, 97, 101, 103, 104, 115, 230, 231
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 30
Colpitts, Edwin H., 138
Communications Act of 1934, 150
Conrad, Frank, 135
Continuous waves, 3, 97, 99, 104, 106, 108, 109, 111, 112, 120, 229, 235
Cooper, Martin, 3, 175, 176, 177, 184, 188, 205
Cooper’s Law, 188
Cordless phone, 202
Cordless telephone second generation (CT2), 202
Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de, 8
Cox, Donald C., 3, 183
Crookes, William, 51, 84
Crosley, 153
Cruikshank, William, 16
CTIA - the Wireless Association, 184, 194, 195, 231
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 67
Damped waves, 99, 104, 230
Davy, Humphry, 16, 20, 21, 24, 247
Delco, 154
Descartes, Rene, 9
Detector, 56, 57, 59, 81, 84, 85, 92, 97, 103, 104, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 128, 231, 243
Detroit Police Department, 149
Detrola Company, 156
Diamagnetism, 30, 31
Dielectric, 30, 31, 38, 39, 47, 54, 231, 233
Digital signal processor (DSP), 201, 202
Diode, 96, 97, 113, 116, 162, 243
Direct sequence, 195, 196, 197, 230
Displacement current, 38, 39, 40, 54
Dixon, Robert, 196
Dolbear, Amos, 80, 81
Draper, John William, 67
Drawbaugh, Daniel, 81
Duddell, William, 104
Duhem, Pierre, 43, 222, 223, 246
Dürer, Albrecht, 10
Dyar, Harrison Gray, 62
Dynamic power control, 198
DynaTAC, 176
E.F. Johnson, 178
Easton, Roger, 205
Edison effect, 113, 232
Edison, Thomas, 49, 78, 80, 81, 82, 93, 94, 100, 101, 103, 104, 112, 113, 117, 118, 129, 140, 147, 151, 189, 232
Einstein, Albert, 36, 52
Electrochemistry, 7, 16, 23, 28, 31
Electrolysis, 21, 31
Electromagnetic spectrum, 35, 45, 46, 188
Electromagnetic waves, 32, 39, 56, 86, 91
Electromagnetism, 2, 7, 17, 21, 22, 28, 30, 32, 35, 37, 38, 54, 64, 65, 71, 74
Electrophorus, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17
Ellsworth, Henry L., 66
Elwell, Cyril F., 109
Engel, Joel, 184
Equalization, 233, 238
Ericsson, Lars Magnus, 160
Ether, luminiferous, 29, 38, 39, 43, 48, 50, 51, 52, 120, 231, 233
Euphonia, 75
EV-DO air interface, 200, 212
Faber, Joseph, 75
Fabroni, Giovanni, 16
Faraday Effect, 30
Faraday, Michael, 2, 16, 18–32, 40
Faraday’s Law, 38, 40, 233
Farnsworth, Philo T., 142–48
Fay, Charles du, 7
Feddersen, Berend Wilhelm, 55
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 127, 128, 139, 145, 147, 150, 157, 171, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 181, 182, 183, 199, 202, 204, 205, 232, 238, 239, 240
Federal Radio Commission, 138, 150, 171
Federal Telecommunication Laboratories (FTL), 167
Federal Telegraph Company, 109
Femtocells, 216–17
Fessenden, Reginald, 3, 99–111
Field, Cyrus W., 42, 72–74
Firmian, Count, 12
FitzGerald, G.F., 33, 43, 46, 48, 51, 52, 55, 88, 104
Fleming, John Ambrose, 3, 92, 96, 112–13
Forbes, James David, 42
Forest, Lee de, 3, 113–18
Foschini, Gerard J., 209
Fourth generation (4G) cellular, 212, 213, 214, 215
Franklin Institute, 67, 128, 144
Franklin, Benjamin, 8, 10, 22, 84, 86, 246
Frenkiel, Richard, 184
Frequency hopping (FH), 165, 166, 167, 192, 195, 196
Frequency modulation (FM), 3, 118, 125, 126, 145, 154, 170, 234, 236
Frequency reuse, 169, 175, 178, 194
Fuel cells, 220
Full-duplex, 158
Gale, Leonard D., 65
Galeazzi, Domenico Gusmano, 10
Galvani, Lucia, 5, 10
Galvani, Luigi, 2, 5–7, 9–11, 12–17
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, 152
Galvin, Paul, 151–56
Galvin, Robert, 155
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 32, 43, 62, 234
Gay-Lussac, Louis, 21
Geissler tube, 58
General Electric, 105, 109, 110, 127, 134
Getting, Ivan A., 205
Gilbert, William, 7, 23
Global Positioning System (GPS), 3, 165, 205, 206, 234, 236
Global system for mobile communications (GSM), 186, 187, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 200, 201, 202, 207, 226, 234, 236, 238, 247
Globalstar, 206
Golomb, Solomon W., 196
Gray, Elisha, 78, 79
Gray, Stephen, 7, 61
Guericke, Otto von, 7–8, 11
Hales, Stephen, 9
Haller, Albrecht von, 9
Hartley, Ralph, 138, 188
Hazeltine, Louis Alton, 138
HD Radio, 204
Heaviside, Oliver, 33, 43, 46, 88, 94, 119, 248
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 17, 35, 48, 53, 54, 59, 76
Henry, Joseph, 22–23, 62
Herschel, John, 27, 42
Hertz, Heinrich, 2, 33, 43, 45, 46, 43–47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 53–60, 83, 84, 85, 86, 90, 97, 101, 104, 105, 108, 114, 228, 234, 241, 245, 247
Heterodyne, 108, 109, 121, 235
High definition television (HDTV), 204, 211, 235
Hoff, Ted, 164
Hoffman Radio Corporation, 166
HSDPA air interface, 212
Hubbard, Gardiner, 76
Huber, Peter, 172
Hunt, Bruce J., 40
Hunter, John, 10
Idestam, Fredrik, 174
IEEE 802.11b, a, and g, 203
IEEE 802.11n, 211, 216
Improved mobile telephone service (IMTS), 158, 171, 176
Induction, 25, 27, 28, 37, 38, 41, 49, 54, 55, 56, 79, 85, 88, 90, 91, 97, 232, 233, 235, 240, 242
Information theory, 36, 189, 230
Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), 116
Integrated circuits, 164, 171, 196, 235
Intel Corp., 212
Interferometric modulation (IMOD) display, 219
Intermediate frequency (IF), 121
Internet protocol (IP), 186
Iridium, 206
Jackson, Charles T., 66
Jacobs, Irwin, 195, 199
Jenkins, Charles Francis, 141
Joel Jr., Amos E., 175
Jones, V.K., 210
Kailath, Thomas, 209
Karlsruhe Technical, 54
Kendall, Amos, 70
Kennelly, Arthur Edwin, 94
Kilby, Jack, 164, 165, 171