David J. Whalen
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"Challenging the conventional wisdom -- the assumption that government (politics rather than economics) developed satellite communications because industry could not -- is the purpose of this book. That part of the story told here is of the invention of two kinds of communications satellites by AT&T and Hughes Aircraft Company, followed by government intervention to control that technology for political purposes. The primary rationale for government...
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