print email comment close Connected Earth: How Communication Shapes the World URL: http://www.connected-earth.com/ Description: This site "lets you explore communications past, present and future." Features illustrated essays on types of telecommunications (such as telegraph, telephone, radio, and satellite), advertising, uses, and pioneers and personalities. Also includes images of telecommunications artifacts, personal stories, and material for children (games and how the technology works). Don't miss the "gadgets" section where you can "explode" equipment to see what is inside. From British Telecom (BT) and several museum partners in the UK. Publisher: Connected Earth Extra Keywords wireless LII Database Information: Record 25153 created by Maria Brandt on 12/18/2007 Last modification on 01/02/2008 Published: 01/02/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25153