Inventions and innovations in the electrical and communications sectors: a historical perspective

摘要

Cullis takes a historic perspective on the developmentrnof the electrical and communications sectors.rnCiting from the blurb of the book: ‘It presents a holistic,rnmultidisciplinary analysis of innovation basedrnon case studies of paradigm-changing inventions –rnspanning two hundred years – which altered therncourse of the global economy’. Next to a deeprnanalysis of the early years of electrification, a modelrnfor the evaluation of the likeliness of successful innovationsrnis provided that is grounded on deductionsrnand inferences from the case studies.