Unit 3: Compression

Readings

Assignments

Resources

Technical

Historical

  • Wilson, Geoffrey. The Old Telegraphs. London, UK: Phillimore and Co., 1976. ISBN: 9780900592799.
    Describes several telegraph systems, in many countries, that predate electrical telegraphs.
  • Holzmann, Gerard J., and Björn Pehrson. The Early History of Data Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. ISBN: 9780818667824.
  • ———. "The First Data Networks." Scientific American 270 (January 1994): 124-129.
    Describes French and Swedish optical telegraphs, from the 1790s.
  • Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet. New York, NY: Berkley Books, 1999, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780425171691.
  • Unisys/Compuserve GIF Controversy