{"title":"Invention of Pupin’s periodically distributed inductance coils to allow for long-distance telephone transmission","authors":"B. Milovanovic, A. Marinčić, N. Dončov","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668732","url":null,"abstract":"Pupinpsilas theory of periodically loaded telephone lines, allowing for significant reduction of attenuation within the baseband telephone signal transmission, and its experimental verification are presented in this paper. Such so-called Pupin loading was achieved by the use of discrete inductance coils of toroidal form equally distributed along the line. In addition, a modern full wave matrix approach of such Pupinized transmission line is used in order to further illustrate the effects of Pupinpsilas coils inclusion on line transmission characteristics and bandwidth. For that purposes, so-called Heaviside criterion fulfilment factor is introduced and comparison with unloaded line and equivalent uniform line characteristics is presented.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125902514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Savini, R. Galdi, F. Pietra, L. Zanetta, B. Bowers
{"title":"The SIRTI collection of telephones in the Pavia Museum of Electrical Technology","authors":"A. Savini, R. Galdi, F. Pietra, L. Zanetta, B. Bowers","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668727","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1978 and 1986 SIRTI, a leading Italian telecommunication engineering company established in 1921, assembled a collection of telephone equipment and instrumentation. The collection is now exhibited in the Museum of Electrical Technology in Pavia. This paper describes the magnificent SIRTI collection of telephones composed of about three hundred items, which illustrates the history of telephone technology from the last decades of the 19th century to the present day.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"1204 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131384454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edouard Estaunié, electrical engineer, novelist and teacher, the man who coined the term telecommunications","authors":"J. Dilhac","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668709","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe how the term telecommunications and its related concepts were introduced. We first recall that this term was coined in 1904 by Edouard Estaunie who was a French writer, known for his novels of character, and also by profession an engineer. We then explain why and how this neologism was coined. Finally we briefly consider past and present definitions of telecommunications.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124628029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first SAW based IFF system and its operation in Austrian aerospace defence","authors":"F. Seifert, H. Stocker, O. Franz","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668733","url":null,"abstract":"Starting in 1976 for the Austrian air surveillance (SSR) system, required by the neutrality status of Austria, an identification friend or foe system (IFF) was designed, simulated and realized at the Vienna university of technology in about 20 diploma and PHD theses in cooperation with the Austrian ministry of defense and Schrack Inc., Vienna. Goal was to make it resistant against deceptive electronic counter measures (ECM). Using surface acoustic wave (SAW) chirp filters identification signals with high time bandwidth product were achieved. The IFF was flight tested in 1988 and came to successful use in the Yugoslavian civil war 1991, when Austrian airspace neutrality was violated by MIG fighter planes, equipped with ECM.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128041452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘In a parental position to our telegraph system’: Charles Wheatstone","authors":"B. Bowers","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668704","url":null,"abstract":"Prince Albert said that Wheatstone was dasiain a parental position to our telegraph systempsila. Was that description justified? The practical electric telegraph began with the work of Cooke and Wheatstone in Britain and of Morse in the USA. The first commercial installation was arranged by Cooke, using Wheatstonepsilas dasiafive-needlepsila instruments, on the Great Western Railway. It led to the formation of the Electric Telegraph Company and the rapid development of the telegraph network. When Morse came to London, seeking an English patent, he met Wheatstone, and probably also Cooke. They discussed possible cooperation, but the discussions came to nothing.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115618061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From analog to Digital Television — the common way how to digitize European broadcasting","authors":"T. Kratochvil","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668734","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the origin, history, present and future of the DTV (digital television) in the Europe. It introduces DVB (digital video broadcasting) project that creates global standards for digital television since 1991. Fundamental European standards for DVB provides transmission of DTV (digital television) via three transmission media - DVB-S (satellite), DVB-C (cable) and DVB-T (terrestrial) channels. These standards are in the paper described with the according depth. With the development of HDTV (high definition TV), IPTV (Internet protocol TV), mobile TV using DVB-H (handheld) and interactive data broadcasting using DVB-MHP (multimedia home platform) the new approaches to DTV broadcasting are outlined. This paper contains compiled information from the DVB project webpage, DVB fact sheets, standards ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) and EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and Internet resources to present the DVB as a real ldquomilestone in digital communicationsrdquo. All used resources are properly quoted in references list.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120901870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vigenère through Shannon to planck — a short history of electronic cryptographic systems","authors":"P. Hill","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668712","url":null,"abstract":"The history of cryptography goes right back to ancient times but modern electronic coding for secrecy essentially uses similar principles for poly-alphabetic ciphers and their variants; recent algorithm developments are based on the rules of secrecy as enunciated by Claude Shannon in the late 1940psilas; many of these schemes are published as standards. We now have public-key systems, and quantum cryptography is now beginning to emerge from the research laboratories.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"2019 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128073089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first computer communication network between east and west","authors":"Frank Dittmann","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668721","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the development of computer communication networks in the former COMECON countries between the end of World War II and the beginning of the 1990s.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128139888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History of electroencephalography","authors":"Hans J. Schmitt","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668719","url":null,"abstract":"The author briefly reviews the development of EEG studies and methods.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115381862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communications at the Musée des arts et métiers: “From transmission to information processing”","authors":"L. Petitgirard","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668728","url":null,"abstract":"We deal with the problem of considering communications as a museum item. We address four topics, rendering guidelines for a future exhibition at the Musee des arts et metiers: the materiality of communications, communications after Shannonpsilas work, information processing as a new paradigm for communications, and eventually the rising of our society of information and communications and some of its (technological) problems.","PeriodicalId":138843,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference","volume":"587 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120932447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}