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ISBN:
Category : Telegraphers
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The Commercial Telegraphers' Journal
Author: Commercial Telegraphers' Journal
Author: The Commercial Telegraphers' Journal
Author: The Train and the Telegraph
Author: Benjamin Sidney Michael SchwantesPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421429748
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. 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.
Telegraph Workers Journal
Author: Commercial Telegraphers' Journal
Author: My Sisters Telegraphic
Author: Thomas C. JepsenPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821413430
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"This study also explores the surprising parallels between the telegraphy of the nineteenth century and the work of women in technical fields today. The telegrapher's work, like that of the modern computer programmer, involved translating written language into machine-readable code. And anticipating the Internet by over one hundred years, telegraphers often experienced the gender-neutral aspect of the "cyberspace" they inhabited."--BOOK JACKET.
The Railroad Telegrapher
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1854
Book Description
Journal of the Telegraph
Author: Telegraph Messenger Boys
Author: Gregory J. DowneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135315752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beyond the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about.