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Wired into Nature : The Telegraph and the North American Frontier /
The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new res...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Landscapes, Ecosystems, and Prevailing Westerlies: The Great Plains; 2. Storms Moving in a Ring of Fire: The Civil War; 3. Changes in the Forecast: Data Gathering, Mapping, and Weather Predictions; 4. Dreams of a Boreal Empire, Nightmares of a Polar Vortex: The Arctic; 5. Hot Winds on a Sun-Baked Desert: The Southwest; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research with bold reinterpretation, James Schwoch details the unexplored dimensions of the frontier telegraph and its impact. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING |x Telecommunications. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Industries |x Media & Communications. |2 bisacsh | |
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