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The Telegraph

Author : Lewis Coe

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 48,59 MB

Release : 2003-11-26

Category : History

ISBN : 9780786418084

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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.



The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920

Author : David Hochfelder

Publisher : JHU Press

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 36,65 MB

Release : 2013-01-01

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1421407973

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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.





How the Telegraph Changed the World

Author : William J. Phalen

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 30,46 MB

Release : 2014-12-15

Category : History

ISBN : 078649445X

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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.



The Train and the Telegraph

Author : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes

Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 16,94 MB

Release : 2019-08-06

Category : Science

ISBN : 1421429748

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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.



The Telegraph in America

Author : James D. Reid

Publisher :

Page : 920 pages

File Size : 33,11 MB

Release : 1879

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Here is an often cited panoramic history of the telegraph which discusses the principal telegraph firms and the key persons within them. Throughout his work, Reid stresses the business and economic aspects of marketing this remarkable scientific invention. The importance of The Telegraph in America as a classic reference in the field is under-scored by the fact that the author was active in telegraphy throughout the period he discusses. He thus had a personal knowledge of persons and events under examination.



Revolutions in Communication

Author : Bill Kovarik

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 481 pages

File Size : 29,18 MB

Release : 2015-11-19

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1628924780

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Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. Updated to reflect new research that has surfaced these past few years, Revolutions in Communication continues to provide students and teachers with the most readable history of communications, while including enough international perspective to get the most accurate sense of the field. The supplemental reading materials on the companion website include slideshows, podcasts and video demonstration plans in order to facilitate further reading.



Submarine Telegraphs

Author : Charles Bright

Publisher :

Page : 882 pages

File Size : 30,3 MB

Release : 1898

Category : Cables, Submarine

ISBN :

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Makers of the Telegraph

Author : Kenneth B. Lifshitz

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 32,71 MB

Release : 2017-02-13

Category : History

ISBN : 1476665591

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The single-wire telegraph revolutionized long distance communication but it was not the brainchild of one inventor, Samuel Morse. His colleagues and employees--specifically Ezra Cornell and Joseph Henry--made crucial contributions. Examining the careers of the three men and the key events, this book presents Morse as primarily a businessman and consolidator of ideas who, frequently in conflict with his associates, sought to present the telegraph as a uniform system under his sole imprimatur. The battle between Morse and Cornell over the invention of the magnetic relay was central to the drama. What emerges is a complex portrait of three ambitious and brilliant innovators and the age in which they lived.



ReMaking History, Volume 3

Author : William Gurstelle

Publisher : Maker Media, Inc.

Page : 358 pages

File Size : 28,91 MB

Release : 2017-02-23

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1680450689

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Makers of the Modern World is the third volume of William Gurstelle's unique, hands-on journey through history. Each chapter examines a remarkable character from the past, one of the people whose insights and inventions helped create our modern world. What sets this series apart from other history books - including other histories of technology - is that each chapter also includes step-by-step instructions for making your own version of the historical invention. History comes to life in a way you have never experienced before when you follow the inventors' steps and recreate the groundbreaking devices of the past with your own hands. This volume brings you to the early modern era and the invention of the electric light, the movie projector, and the automobile. Inside, you will discover: Alessandro Volta and Electroplating Humphrey Davy and the First Electric light George Cayley and the Aeronautical Glider The Lumiere Brothers and the Movie Projector Rudolf Diesel and the Automobile Engine Hans Goldschmidt and the Thermite Reaction August Mobius and the Mobius Strip Louis Poinsot's Loads, Moments, and Torques Be sure to also check out ReMaking History, Volume 1: Early Makers and ReMaking History Volume 2 :Industrial Revolutionaries.