Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Study of the Telegraph Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Study of the Telegraph Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
To Authorize a Complete Study of the Telegraph Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920
Author: David HochfelderPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407973
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 examines the correlation between technological innovation and social change and shows how this transformative relationship helps us to understand and perhaps define modernity. The telegraph revolutionized the spread of information—speeding personal messages, news of public events, and details of stock fluctuations. During the Civil War, telegraphed intelligence and high-level directives gave the Union war effort a critical advantage. Afterward, the telegraph helped build and break fortunes and, along with the railroad, altered the way Americans thought about time and space. With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.
To Authorize a Complete Study of the Telegraph Industry
Author: United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Multiple Telegraph
Author: Alexander Graham BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Study of the Telegraph Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Train and the Telegraph
Author: Benjamin Sidney Michael SchwantesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429756
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.
The Telegraph in America
Author: James D. ReidPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Here is an often cited panoramic history of the telegraph which discusses the principal telegraph firms and the key persons within them. Throughout his work, Reid stresses the business and economic aspects of marketing this remarkable scientific invention. The importance of The Telegraph in America as a classic reference in the field is under-scored by the fact that the author was active in telegraphy throughout the period he discusses. He thus had a personal knowledge of persons and events under examination.
The Telegraph
Author: Annteresa LubranoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135663742
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
First published in 1997. Information processing is crucial to social life and an important element of control. Innovations in information processing have the potential to dramatically alter social relations. Understanding the process of technology innovation and diffusion as well as the economic, social, political and cultural impact of a diffusing/diffused technology is crucial to understanding society as technology is often the impetus for social change. This book addresses both the process and impact of technology innovation as it relates to communication technology.