Item #21059 Transmission of Information. R. V. L. Hartley.
Transmission of Information
Transmission of Information
Transmission of Information
A Key Work in the Development of Information Theory

Transmission of Information

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1928. First Edition. 375-637 pages. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers, entire issue offered. Errata slip bound in before first page. Minor browning to the wrappers and wear to the extremities. In Bell System Technical Journal 7, pages 535-63. Very Good. Wraps. [21059]


'In the first paragraph of his key 1948 paper on "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" ...Claude Shannon acknowledged his debt to two earlier works. The first was Nyquist's "Certain factors affecting telegraph speed" published in 1924, ... and the second was Hartley's "Transmission of Information". Hartley, a research engineer at Bell Laboratories, wanted to establish a quantitative measure to compare the capacities of various types of communications systems - telephone, television, etc.-to transmit information.' (Origins of Cyberspace 316).

Hartley's focus was on defining information in quantitative terms, rather than as the meaning, or content of the message.

Offered here in the ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, scarce thus.

LITERATURE:
Lindsay, R. Bruce, "Benchmark Papers on Energy, Vol. 6: The Control of Energy", Dowden, Htchnson & Ross Inc, Stroudburg, PA:1977, p320, 360-388

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