The telegraph in America, 1832-1920 /David Hochfelder.
Hochfelder, David, 1965-
The telegraph in America, 1832-1920 /David Hochfelder. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (viii, 250 pages, 8 unnmubered pages of plates) : illustrations. - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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 -- Chronology of the American telegraph industry -- Essay on sources.
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 --
9781421407975
Telegraph--History.--United States
Telegraph--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
TK5123 / .T454 2012 TK5123
The telegraph in America, 1832-1920 /David Hochfelder. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (viii, 250 pages, 8 unnmubered pages of plates) : illustrations. - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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 -- Chronology of the American telegraph industry -- Essay on sources.
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 --
9781421407975
Telegraph--History.--United States
Telegraph--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
TK5123 / .T454 2012 TK5123