PATRICK D. VAN DER PUIJE, PhD, recently retired after serving for thirty years as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

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• Preface. Chapter One. The Hstory of Telecommunications. Chapter Two. Amplitude Modulated Radio Transmitter. Chapter Three. The Amplitude-Modulated Radio Receiver. Chapter Four. Frequency Modulated Radio Transmitter. Chapter Five. The Frequency Modulated Radio Receiver. Chapter Six. The Television Transmitter. Chapter Seven. The Television Receiver. Chapter Eight. The Telephone Network. Chapter Nine. Signal Processing in the Telephone System. Chapter Ten. The Facsimile Machine. Chapter Eleven. Personal Wireless Communication System. Chapter Twelve. Telecommunication Transmission Media. Appendix A. The Transformer. Appendix B. Designation of Frequencies. Appendix C. The Electromagnetic Spectrum. Appendix D. The Modified Huffman Data Compression Code. Appendix E. Electronic Memory. Appendix F. Binary Coded Decimal to Seven-Segment Decoder. Index.