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This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values—speed, efficiency, militarization, and progress. Language surrounding the wireless is a form of technical communication, overlooked by today’s practitioners. This book establishes a broader definition for technical communication by examining a selection of the discourse surrounding Marconi's wireless. The book’s main themes are the following: 1) technical communication is all discourse surrounding technology, 2) the field of technical communication (or technical writing) should incorporate analyses of discourse surrounding technologies into its epistemology, 3) the wireless is a product of the society from which it comes (early twentieth-century Western civilization), and 4) the discourse surrounding the wireless is infused with tropes of progress—speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity.

Social Sciences --- Social Sciences - General --- Telegraph, Wireless --- Technological innovations --- Telecommunication --- Marconi system --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Society and telecommunication --- Wireless telegraph --- Social sciences. --- Culture --- Philosophy. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Sciences, general. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Philosophy, general. --- Study and teaching. --- Telegraph --- Coherer --- Radio --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Philosophy (General). --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities