From the Radio Shack to the Cosmos: Listening to Sputnik during the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958).
Whereas literature on satellites and outer space exploration has usually been dominated by vision, humankind's initial encounter with the Earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, was overwhelmingly sonic. Tracking was originally enabled by the signal continuously transmitted by its radio beaco...
| Publicado en: | Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society Vol. 114; no. 1; pp. 123 - 150 |
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University of Chicago Press
Mar2023
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