The telegraph in America, 1832-1920 / David Hochfelder.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Description: viii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421407470
  • 9781421407975
  • 1421407477
  • 1421407973
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 384.10973/09034 23
LOC classification:
  • TK5123 .H63 2012
Contents:
"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.
Summary: " ... 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.
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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.

" ... 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.

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