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_aHochfelder, David, _d1965- _e1 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aThe telegraph in America, 1832-1920 /David Hochfelder. |
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_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c(c)2012. |
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_a"Here the telegraph came forcably into play": the telegraph during the Civil War -- _t"As a telegraph for the people it is a signal failure": the postal telegraph movement -- _t"There is a public voracity for telegraphic news": the telegraph, written language, and journalism -- _t"The ticker is always a treacherous servant": the telegraph and the rise of modern finance capitalism -- _t"Western Union, by Grace of FCC and A.T. & T.": The telegraph the telephone and the logic of industrial succession -- _tChronology of the American telegraph industry -- _tEssay on sources. |
| 520 | 0 | _aTelegraphy 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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