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- From: boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison)
- Subject: Book Review: "From Somaphore to Satellite" by ITU
- Date: 25 May 1994 09:08:43 -0500
- Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605
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- For those of you interested in the history of Trans-Atlantic
- cobles, or the history of telecom, there's a book you might want to
- search for. My copy is rather old, so if there was no update to it;
- you may have to look for an old edition.
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- The book is called 'From Somaphore to Satellite'. It was published
- by the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) in 1963. It
- covers everything up to that year.
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- It's a big format, 344 page volume. The parts covering the history
- of the Trans-Atlantic cable were very interesting, at least to me.
- The book has some interesting old pictures too.
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- [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Perhaps you or someone else with a copy
- of the book would like to quote some of the more interesting excerpts here
- in the Digest. Please send them in. PAT]
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