TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hochfelder,David
TI  - The telegraph in America, 1832-1920
T2  - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
SN  - 9781421407470
AV  - TK5123 .H63 2012
U1  - 384.10973/09034 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Telegraph
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - USA
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Here the telegraph came forceably 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
N2  - " ... Examines the correlation between technological innovation and social change and shows how this transformative relationship helps us to understand and perhaps define modernity"--Page 4 of cover
ER  -