The Telegraph In America

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 : James D. Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telegraph in America written by James D. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James D. Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
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Download or read book The Telegraph in American and Morse Memorial written by James D. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Menahem Blondheim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674622128
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book News Over the Wires written by Menahem Blondheim and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique history of telegraphic news gathering and news flow evaluates the effect of the innovative technology on the evolution of the concept of news and journalistic practices. It also addresses problems of technological innovation and diffusion. Menahem Blondheim's main concern, however, is the development of oligopoly in business and the control revolution in American society. He traces the discovery of timely news as a commodity, presenting a lively and detailed account of the emergence of the New York Associated Press (AP) as the first private sector national monopoly in the United States and Western Union as the first industrial one.

Author : James D. Reid
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The telegraph in America written by James D. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James D. Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telegraph in America written by James D. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William J. Phalen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649445X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Telegraph Changed the World written by William J. Phalen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invented in the 1830's, the telegraph soon became indispensable. By 1851 there were more than 50 companies providing telegraphic service in the United States alone. The telegraph played a pivotal role in warfare beginning with the American Civil War, featured prominently in the creation of the first large American corporation, Western Union, and made possible long distance communication with the laying of the transatlantic cable. This book describes the global impact of the telegraph from its advent to its eventual eclipse by the telephone four decades later.

Author : James D. Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telegraph in America and Morse Memorial written by James D. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Telegraph Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Telegraph Company and the New York Associated Press written by American Telegraph Company and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Frederick Briggs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Telegraph, and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable written by Charles Frederick Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: