The Information - James Gleick [263]
Table of Triangular Numbers, (Babbage)
Tables for the Improvement of Navigation (Briggs)
Table to find the Height of the Pole (Briggs)
Tafelen van Interest (Stevin)
Talbot, William Fox
talking drums, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12
Talking Drums of Africa, The (Carrington)
Tawell, John
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
telegraphy, prl.1, 1.1, 4.1
address codes, 14.1, 14.2
Baudot code for
bubble
cipher and compression systems for, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
as commercial business, 5.1, 5.2
commercial interest in, 5.1, 5.2
conceptual understanding of, 5.1, 5.2
early systems for, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12
electrical relays in
before electricity, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
in England, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
errors in
in France, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8
growth of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9
infrastructure of
invention of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
as medium, 5.1, 5.2
operator’s key
perception of time and, 5.1, 5.2
preservation of messages sent by, 5.1, 5.2
private ciphers to reduce cost of, 5.1, 5.2
public interest in codes and, 5.1, 5.2
in Soviet Union
statistical structure of language in, 7.1, 7.2
telephony and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
trans-Atlantic, 5.1, 5.2
waveform analysis in
weather reporting and, 5.1, 5.2
see also Morse code
telephony
architecture and
barbed-wire networks
biological metaphors for
commercial applications of, 6.1, 6.2
concern about social effects of
demand for information and, 15.1, 15.2
electrical engineering requirements of, 6.1, 6.2
evolution of switching technology for, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
farmer cooperative networks of
growth of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
measurement of information carried by, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
printed directories, 6.1, 6.2
relays in
signal distortion in, prl.1, prl.2
in Soviet Union
telephotography, 6.1, 6.2
teleportation, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
television, prl.1, prl.2, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2
Teller, Edward
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 4.1, 4.2
Terhal, Barbara
Théorie des fonctions analytiques (Lagrange)
Theory of Heat (Maxwell)
thermodynamics
of computation, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
concept of entropy in, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
conceptual evolution of, 9.1, 9.2
first law of
of life
molecular fluctuations in, 9.1, 9.2
probability in, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
second law of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
Thesaurus (Roget)
thinking
cryptographic skills
as digital operation, 8.1, 8.2
discovery of
human–computer comparison, 8.1, 8.2
language and, 2.1, 2.2
in literate cultures, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
logic and, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2
machine and computer operations as, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10
“recoding” of information in, 8.1, 8.2
telegraph effects on, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
see also logic
Thomas, Thomas
Thomson, James
Thomson, William, Lord Kelvin, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
“Three Approaches to the Definition of the Concept ‘Amount of Information’” (Kolmogorov)
Three Letter Code for Condensed Telegraphic and Inscrutably Secret Messages and Correspondence (Scott)
“Three Models for the Description of Language” (Chomsky)
THROBAC
time
effects of information technology in perception of
movement toward entropy in, 9.1, 9.2
in physics of black holes
speed of early mechanical calculators, 4.1, 4.2
standardization of clocks, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
telegraph effects on understanding of, 5.1, 5.2
written language and
Time Machine, The (Wells)
Tobias, Andrew
tonality, in communication, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Torres y Quevedo, Leonardo
Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, 13.1
trademark names, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
transistor, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 3.1, 7.1, 14.1
translation, language, 3.1, 3.2
transmission of information
Babbage’s work