The Atlantic Telegraph


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The Atlantic Telegraph


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The Story of the Atlantic Cable


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Reproduction of the original: The Story of the Atlantic Cable by Charles Bright




The Atlantic Telegraph


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Submarine Telegraphs


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Media,Technology and Society


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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.




Small Wars


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Media and the American Mind


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In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.