TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hochfelder,David
TI  - The telegraph in America, 1832-1920 /David Hochfelder
T2  - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
SN  - 9781421407975
AV  - TK5123 .T454 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Telegraph
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; "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; 2; b
N2  - 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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