The Railroad The Telegraph And Other Technologies

Author : Xina M. Uhl
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1680487973
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railroad, the Telegraph, and Other Technologies written by Xina M. Uhl and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1800 to 1900 the territory of the United States expanded fourfold, and the population skyrocketed from about five million to seventy-five million plus. Two key innovations in technology helped this rapid development take place: steam and electricity. This easy-to-read guide traces the rail system's impact on shipping, travel, and the taming of the western frontier. Also covered are unprecedented advances in communication and other technology, such as new steel processes and improved farming tools. These changes not only ushered forth a new era of American progress but also formed the foundation of the modern world.

Author : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429756
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Train and the Telegraph written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.

Author : David Hochfelder
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421407973
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 written by David Hochfelder and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. 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—speeding personal messages, news of public events, and details of stock fluctuations. During the Civil War, telegraphed intelligence and high-level directives gave the Union war effort a critical advantage. Afterward, the telegraph helped build and break fortunes and, along with the railroad, altered the way Americans thought about time and space. With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.

Author : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
Publisher : ProQuest
ISBN 13 : 9780549924975
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallible Guardian written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation argues that a deterministic popular rhetoric of 19 th -century mechanical and electrical sublimity has obscured the complex and nuanced social, financial, and technological relationships that developed between users of railroad and telegraph technologies. In order to successfully analyze the agents that shaped the development of both industries in the United States, it is necessary to recognize that these technologies were socially constructed and evolved as parts of larger technological systems that encompassed social, economic, and technological components. By examining how these components interacted and shaped the development of the railroad and telegraph industries, this dissertation situates both technologies within the broader framework of American industrial growth and expansion in the 19 th century. It demonstrates that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation, rather than systematic, linear development dominated the process by which railroad officials and telegraph promoters established working social, financial, and technological partnerships. When Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrated the first telegraph line in 1844, American railroad officials did not immediately perceive telegraphy as a useful tool for managing railroad operations, such as monitoring train locations, communicating with station agents and train crews, issuing operating instructions, and preventing collisions. Nor did American telegraph entrepreneurs understand how to successfully promote their new technology to railroad managers in the antebellum era. Only through a lengthy process of trial and error did users of both technologies gradually establish financial and technological ties. The first three chapters of the dissertation examine the role of social, technological, and economic agents in shaping partnerships between railroad officials and telegraph promoters in antebellum America. The fourth chapter examines how the development and growth of the United States Military Railroad and Telegraph Corps during the American Civil War revealed the underlying tensions between pro-telegraph and anti-telegraph railroad officials and led to compromises between military railroad and telegraph officials on how telegraph technologies would be used for railroad operational management during the conflict. The fifth and sixth chapters address how rapidly expanding railroad traffic in the postwar era forced civilian railroad officials to adopt telegraphic train dispatching technologies in a largely ad hoc manner. The rapid process of adoption led to inconsistent management practices and technological standards and increased the risk of deadly train collisions. These problems were only resolved at the end of the century through a slow standards-setting process directed by railroad officials from numerous companies. By the end of the 19 th century, railroad and telegraph officials established working technological and financial partnerships, but railroad managers never embraced telegraphic management practices. The rapid transition away from telegraphic train dispatching discussed in the final chapter highlights the lingering tensions between both industries in the early 20 th century and demonstrates that railroad officials remained concerned that telegraph technology could undermine strict managerial protocols and introduce unacceptable risks to railroad operations. These conclusions strike at the heart of the deterministic rhetoric of technological sublimity and show that neither technology possessed a natural affinity for the other, nor were they inherently linked as technological partners in American industrial development.

Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134766335
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media,Technology and Society written by Brian Winston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.

Author : Lewis Coe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786418084
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telegraph written by Lewis Coe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-11-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the telegraph marked a new era in communication. For the first time, people were able to communicate quickly from great distances. The genesis of Morse's invention is covered in detail, starting in 1832, along with the establishment of the first transcontinental telegraph line in the United States and the dramatic effect the device had on the Civil War. The Morse telegraph that served the world for over 100 years is explained in clear terms. Also examined are recent advances in telegraph technology and its continued impact on communication.

Author : K. G. Beauchamp
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 0852967926
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Telegraphy written by K. G. Beauchamp and published by IET. This book was released on 2001 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauchamp (1923-99, retired from the U. of Lancaster, UK) devotes the first half of the book to terrestrial telegraphy, from the beginnings of communication with mechanical signaling to the electrical system using Morse code, including a large chapter on the laying of submarine cables across the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. The second half, on aerial telegraphy, discusses its beginnings with Marconi and its use on board ships and aircraft in both world wars. Dozens of maps show routes of telegraph cable and figures depict old telegraph equipment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Tech Tron
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541963466
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Morse Invented the Telegraph | U.S. Economy in the mid-1800s Grade 5 | Children's Computers & Technology Books written by Tech Tron and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describe the invention of Samuel Morse in this book for fifth graders. How did the telegraph help lead the economic growth in the Northeast states? What pushed Morse to create this invention and how was it received in the mid-1800s? Read about the history of the invention and the inventor, too. Grab a copy of this book today.

Author : Bill Kovarik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144118550X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutions in Communication written by Bill Kovarik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the Information Age, the fall of the traditional media, and the bewildering explosion of personal information services are all connected to the historical chain of communications' revolutions. We need to understand these revolutions because they influence our present and future as much as any other trend in history. And we need to understand them not simply on a national basis - an unstable foundation for history in any event - but rather as part of the emergent global communications network. Unlike most of the current texts in the field, Revolutions in Communication is an up-to-date resource, expanding upon contemporary scholarship. It provides students and teachers with detailed sidebars about key figures, technical innovations, global trends, and social movements, as well as supplemental reading materials, and a fully supportive companion website. Revolutions in Communication is an authoritative introduction to the history of all branches of media.

Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250618398
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Morse, That's Who! written by Tracy Nelson Maurer and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Tracy Nelson Maurer and illustrator El Primo Ramón present a lively picture book biography of Samuel Morse that highlights how he revolutionized modern technology. Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that’s who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions—only if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication forever? Samuel Morse, that’s who! This dynamic and substantive biography celebrates an early technology pioneer.