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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Chen-Pang YeangPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780226274393ISBN 10: 022627439 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 22 April 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"""The advent of global radio communications marked the beginning of three decades of intense theoretical and experimental studies of the ionosphere. Yeang's work is a philosophically sophisticated examination of the interplay between theory and practice in the early years of radio science. Definitive experiments in the 1920s intentionally bounced radio waves off the ionosphere to probe its structure, and Yeang fits the history of the complex evolution of ionospheric studies into the wider contact of active sensing. . . . Highly recommended."" -- ""Choice"" ""Probing the Sky with Radio Waves offers us a fine example of the 'mutual shaping' of science and technology. Those interested in a thoughtful, technically adept history of the discovery of the ionosphere will not be disappointed. Yet this book offers much more. Chen-Pang Yeang deftly draws out the diverse international array of local cultures that made the discovery possible: mathematical, theoretical, and experimental physicists; civilian, military, and corporate engineers; inventors and radio amateurs. The story is a fascinating one, and Yeang--coupling the history and philosophy of science--is an able narrator."" --Suman Seth, Cornell University ""Chen-Pang Yeang's book is the major contribution to our knowledge of how physical theory and electrical experimentation worked together to explain the movement of radio waves beyond the horizon--a compelling question in the years following Marconi's famous experiment of 1901. Yeang clearly explains how 'direct evidence' for the existence of the ionosphere was ultimately provided and reminds us of how important work in classical physics continued into the exciting era of relativity and quantum mechanics. What he describes is a rare mix of physics and electrical engineering encountering the 'field sciences.'""--A. David Wunsch, University of Massachusetts Lowell" Chen-Pang Yeang's book is the major contribution to our knowledge of how physical theory and electrical experimentation worked together to explain the movement of radio waves beyond the horizon--a compelling question in the years following Marconi's famous experiment of 1901. Yeang clearly explains how 'direct evidence' for the existence of the ionosphere was ultimately provided and reminds us of how important work in classical physics continued into the exciting era of relativity and quantum mechanics. What he describes is a rare mix of physics and electrical engineering encountering the 'field sciences.' --A. David Wunsch, University of Massachusetts Lowell Author InformationChen-Pang Yeang is associate professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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