Network nation : inventing American telecommunications /
The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was de...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making a neighborhood of a nation
- Professor Morse's lightning
- Antimonopoly
- The new postalic dispensation
- Rich man's mail
- The talking telegraph
- Telephomania
- Second nature
- Gray wolves
- Universal service
- One great medium?