City of light : the story of fiber optics /
""City of Light"" tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the book is a lively acc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Edition: | Rev. and expanded ed. |
| Series: | Sloan technology series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | ""City of Light"" tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the book is a lively account of both the people and the ideas behind this revolutionary technology. The basic concept underlying fiber optics was first explored in the 1840s when researchers used jets of water to guide light in laboratory demonstrations. The idea caught the public eye decades later when it was used to create stunning illumina. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook EngineeringCore EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-327) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198026761 0198026765 0195186559 9780195186550 9780195162554 0195162552 1280452978 9781280452970 0199883084 9780199883080 |
