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| | R.V.L. Hartley: The Transmission of Information, first edition, first printing |
 | | R.V.L. Hartley, a research engineer at Bell Labs and the inventor of the Hartley oscillator, was one of the first to make progress in quantitatively measuring the capacities of various types of information systems to transmit information. |
 | | In his paper, Hartley had arrived at many of the most important ideas of the mathematical theory of communication: the difference between information and meaning, information as a physical quantity, the logarithmic rule for transmission of information, and the essential concept of noise as an impediment in the transmission of information |
 | | Although Hartley, in 1928, was primarily concerned with information transmission in the telephone, telegraph, and television, his work, of course, later became of great importance in the development of the computer. |
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