2001 IEEE Conference on the History of Telecommunications

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• From the Cutting Edge to the Conservative Trough: The Telegraphy Business from the 1850s to the 1920s, Bernard Finn
• Partners in Crime: The Telegraph Industry, Finance Capitalism, and Organized Gambling, 1870-1920 , David Hochfelder
• Several Paths Leading to the Use of Small Earth Stations for Satellite Communications Systems, Robert M. Walp

• Turning up the Clock Speed: Corning and the Fiber Optics Revolution, Margaret Graham
• History of Developments of Vapor-Phase Axial Deposition for Optical-Fiber Fabrication and Pioneering Work of Silica-Based Planar Lightwave Circuits , Tatsuo Izawa
• One World, One Telephone, One Love: Iridium, A Post-Cold War, Postmodern, Global-A-Go-Go Tale, Martin Collins

• Communications in Troubled Times: the Case of Ireland and Newfoundland , Donard de Cogan
• Switching in a National Relation: Public-Private Cooperation in the Development of Telephony Technology in Postwar Sweden, Mats Fridlund
• Contention Control in Multi-Access Resource Systems , Gertrude Levine

• Cooke and Wheatstone, and Morse: A Comparative View , Brian Bowers
• The First Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy in 1901: Collaboration or Competition between Guglielmo Marconi and John Ambrose Fleming?, Sungook Hong
• Promotion versus Manufacturing as a Strategy for Earning Money from Inventions: Lessons from the Career of Nikola Tesla, 1885-1915, W. Bernard Carlson

• Pushing Technology: David Sarnoff and Wireless Communications, 1911-1921 , Alexander B. Magoun
• Peter C. Goldmark: Technological Visionary , Karen J. Freeze
• Judge Harold H. Greene: A Pivotal Judicial Figure in Telecommunications Policy and His Legacy , Bill Yurcik

• The History of CTC and Entel: Precursors of Telecommunications in Chile
  Rodrigo Carvallo-Fernandini, Catholic University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile (Region 9)
• The History of Telecommunications in Ireland
  Cornelia Connolly, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland (Region 8)
• Spread Spectrum - Secret Military Technology to 3G
  Rahul Malik, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Region 10)
• Science and Technology: Lord Kelvin's Atlantic Cable
  Jakob Nebeker, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA (Region 4)

• The Mobile Communications Environment in the European Union: Systems, Regulations, and Consequences in the Past, Present, and Future
  Keiko Tanaka, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (Region 6)

• The Telephone Answering Machine as a Reflection of Modern Society, 1877-2001 , David Morton
• Alan Kay: Transforming the Computer Into a Communication Medium , Susan Barnes
• Towards a History of Computer Communications: the 1950's to the 1970's, Mischa Schwartz

• The "American Method": The 19^th-Century Telegraphic Revolution in Finding Longitude , Trudy E. Bell
• Inventing the "Black Box": Mathematics as a Neglected Enabling Technology in the History of Communications Engineering , Chris Bissell
• The Recent History of Secure Voice Communications , Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr.