Hochfelder, David,  1965- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421407975 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Telegraph--History.--United States<br/>Telegraph--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TK5123  / .T454 2012 TK5123