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The telegraph in America, 1832-1920 /
Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the Internet in the twenty-first century. The author, a historian and electrical engineer, offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. This...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012
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| Colección: | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Why the telegraph was revolutionary
- "Here the telegraph came forcably into play" : the telegraph during the Civil War
- "As a telegraph for the people it is a signal failure" : the postal telegraph movement
- "There is a public voracity for telegraphic news" : the telegraph, written language, and journalism
- "The ticker is always a treacherous servant" : the telegraph and the rise of modern finance capitalism
- "Western Union, by Grace of FCC and A.T.&T." : The telegraph the telephone and the logic of industrial succession
- Conclusion : The promise of telegraphy
- Chronology of the American telegraph industry
- Essay on sources.