Wired into Nature : The Telegraph and the North American Frontier /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schwoch, James, 1955- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Telegraph.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
Telegraph > Social aspects > West (U.S.) > History.
Telegraph > West (U.S.) > History.
West United States.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire.
West (U.S.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780252050459

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