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Communication and traffic

Here are entered works on the communications industries treated collectively. Works on human communication, including both the primary techniques of language, pictures, etc. and the secondary techniques, such as the press and radio, are entered under Communication. Works on the modern means of mass communication are entered under Mass media.

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• Communication

• Transportation

• Communication and traffic -- Employees
• Communication and traffic -- History
• Communication and traffic -- Law and legislation
• Communication and traffic -- Netherlands
• Communication and traffic -- Southern States
• Communication and traffic -- United States
• Aeronautics
• Air travel
• Broadcasting
• Cab and omnibus service
• Cables, Submarine
• City traffic
• Communications, Military
• Messengers
• Radio
• Railroads
• Route surveying
• Shipping
• Telegraph
• Telephone
• Traffic regulations

• Communications industries
• Mass communication
• Traffic

• Paths to World Fellowship: Communications in the Netherlands (New York: Netherlands Information Bureau, 1949), by D. H. Rodrigues (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• NASA Contractor Report (partial serial archives)
• Reports and Memoranda, ed. by Great Britain Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Great Britain Aeronautical Research Committee, and Aeronautical Research Council (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)
• NASA Technical Note (partial serial archives)
• Technical Note (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) (partial serial archives)
• Annals of Some Remarkable Aërial and Alpine Voyages, Including Those of the Author; To Which Are Added, Observations of the Affections to Which Aerial and Mountain Travellers Are Liable, and an Essay on the Flight and Migration of Birds (London: Keating and Brown, 1832), by T. Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation: A Contribution Towards a System of Aviation, Compiled from the Results of Numerous Experiments Made by O. and G. Lilienthal (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Otto Lilienthal, trans. by A. W. Isenthal, contrib. by Gustav Lilienthal
  • page images at lindahall.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Mastery of the Air, by William J. Claxton (Gutenberg text)
• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, by Octave Chanute and Louis-Pierre Mouillard, trans. by Eugene Mortiz and M. Louise Kraus (HTML at msstate.edu)
• The Record of an Aeronaut: Being the Life of John M. Bacon (London: J. Long, 1907), by Gertrude Bacon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Flying Visits (electronic edition; contents differ slightly from print edition; 2011), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (2008), by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Seán Ó Siochrú, contrib. by Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)

• Omnibuses and Cabs: Their Origin and History (London: Chapman and Hall, 1902), by Henry Charles Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Radio Electronics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1956), by Samuel Seely (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Modern Radio (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1944), by Kingdon S. Tyler, illust. by James Mac Donald (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Elements of Radio (New York and San Francisco: Prentice-Hall, 1943), by Abraham Marcus and William Marcus, ed. by Ralph E. Horton (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The MYE Technical Manual (Indianapolis: P. R. Mallory and Co., c1942), by and Co. P. R. Mallory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radio as a Career (from the Kitson Careers series; New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1940), by J. L. Hornung (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Magic Dials: The Story of Radio and Television (New York: Lee Furman, 1939), by Lowell Thomas, illust. by Anton Bruehl (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Story of Radio (second edition; New York: The Dial Press, 1935), by Orrin E. Dunlap (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Radio Decade (1930), by Radio Corporation of America (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Radio Markets of the World, 1930 (US Dept. of Commerce trade promotion series, #109; Washington: GPO, 1930), by Lawrence D. Batson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Electric Word: The Rise of Radio (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Paul Schubert (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Methods, Formulas, and Tables for the Calculation of Antenna Capacity (Washington: GPO, 1928), by Frederick W. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radio Industry: The Story of its Development, As Told by Leaders of the Industry to the Students of the Graduate School of Business Administration, George F. Baker Foundation, Harvard University (Chicago et al.: A. W. Shaw, 1928), contrib. by David Sarnoff, J. Anton De Haas, Elmer Eustice Bucher, James G. Harbord, Frank B. Jewett, E. P. Edwards, Stephen B. Davis, H. P. Davis, Merlin Hall Aylesworth, J. L. Ray, Pierre Boucheron, and Harold C. Weber (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Understanding Vectors and Phase (fourth printing; New York: J. F. Rider, 1958), by John F. Rider and Seymour D. Uslan (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The A.B.C. of Radio: The Underlying Principles of Wireless Telephony in Simple Language With Explanatory Drawings and Glossary (second edition; New York: M. H. Ray, c1922), by Waldemar Kaempffert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Construction of Radio Phone and Telegraph Receivers for Beginners (New York: N. W. Henley Pub. Co., 1922), by M. B. Sleeper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Radio Amateur's Hand Book (1922), by A. Frederick Collins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Radio Experimenter's Hand Book: A Book to Answer the Practical Problems of Beginners and Advanced Students of Radio Experimental Work (New York: De Forest Radio Tel. and Tel. Co., 1920), by M. B. Sleeper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Radio for All (Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1922), by Hugo Gernsback
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Radio Telephony (New York: The Wireless Press, c1918), by Alfred N. Goldsmith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Standard Radio Guide: Wireless Explained in Simple Language With Pictures, Diagrams, Radio Map and Complete Directions for Using Receiving Outfits (popular edition; New York: Popular Science Monthly, c1922) (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• All About Broadcasting (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1942), by Creighton Peet (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• The Cathode-Ray Tube at Work (New York: J. F. Rider, c1935), by John F. Rider (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice (New York: McGraw Pub. Co., 1905), by A. Frederick Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "WWJ, The Detroit News": The History of Radiophone Broadcasting by the Earliest and Foremost of Newspaper Stations; Together With Information on Radio for Amateur and Expert (Detroit: Evening News Association, 1922), by Detroit News (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• You're on the Air (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by Graham McNamee and Robert Gordon Anderson, contrib. by Heywood Broun (multiple formats at Google)
• Masters of Space: Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cable; Bell and the Telephone; Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph; Carty and the Wireless Telephone (1917), by Walter Kellogg Towers (Gutenberg text)

• Fifty Years on the Rail (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, c1912), by J. J. Thomas (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
• Railway Economy, by Dionysius Lardner (page images at MOA)
• The Working of the Railroads (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1907), by Logan G. McPherson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in the Economics of Transportation (1956), by Martin J. Beckmann, C. B. McGuire, and Christopher B. Winsten (PDF at Yale)

• Route Surveying (third edition; Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1962), by Carl F. Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Of Ships and Men (Netherlands Government information service booklet, second edition, 1962), by H. Rodriguez (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)

• Masters of Space: Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cable; Bell and the Telephone; Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph; Carty and the Wireless Telephone (1917), by Walter Kellogg Towers (Gutenberg text)
• The Telegraph Monopoly (Philadelphia: C. F. Taylor, ca. 1899), by Frank Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals (2 volumes; 1914), by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, ed. by Edward Lind Morse
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• A School Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1856), by Richard Green Parker (page images at MOA)

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