Masters of Space: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Masters of Space, credited to Walter Kellogg Towers, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Masters of Space by Walter Kellogg Towers. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the technical and commercial fields, they succeeded in flashing both messages and speech around the world, with wires and without wires. It is the story of how the thought of the world has been linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and, most recently, the wireless telephone. (From the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Masters of Space
• Author credits: Walter Kellogg Towers
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 5:55:41

Catalogue topics

• telegraph
• telephone
• radio
• wireless
• non-fiction/history/modern (19th c)
• non-fiction/technology & engineering

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:48
2. 01 - Communication Among the Ancients — 12:29
3. 02 - Signals Past and Present — 16:24
4. 03 - Forerunners of the Telegraph — 10:56
5. 04 - Inventions of Sir Charles Wheatstone — 10:01
6. 05 - The Achievement of Morse — 21:21
7. 06 - 'What Hath God Wrought?' — 18:52
8. 07 - Development of the Telegraph System — 20:07
9. 08 - Telegraphing Beneath the Sea — 14:16
10. 09 - The Pioneer Atlantic Cable — 15:27
11. 10 - A Successful Cable Attained — 12:14
12. 11 - Alexander Graham Bell, The Youth — 14:56
13. 12 - The Birth of the Telephone — 16:17
14. 13 - The Telephone at the Centennial — 13:53
15. 14 - Improvement and Expansion — 13:57
16. 15 - Telegraphing Without Wires — 13:08
17. 16 - An Italian Boy's Work — 13:18
18. 17 - Wireless Telegraphy Established — 14:12
19. 18 - The Wireless Serves the World — 13:40
20. 19 - Speaking Across the Continent — 25:53
21. 20 - Telephoning Through Space — 18:02
22. 21 - Appendix A — 21:12
23. 22 - Appendix B — 21:17

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