The telegraph in America, 1832-1920 /David Hochfelder.

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Hochfelder, David, 1965- [Author]

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online resource

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9781421407975

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TK5123 .T454 2012
TK5123

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"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.

Subject: 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 --

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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 --

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