Author: Hiram Watson Sibley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
The collection consists primarily of the business and legal records of the Sibley family, including Hiram, Hiram Watson, and Harper. The Hiram Sibley material is generally concerned-with the Russian-American Telegraph Co., and consists of correspondence, notes, printed material, and translations from as well as documents in Russian. There is also a small amount of family correspondence and material. The Hiram Watson Sibley section consists of business correspondence between Hiram, Hiram Watson, Hobart Atkinson and other members of the firm. Some of this material is also personal, since the partners were related to each other by marriage. There are also the records of the firm Sibley and Bearinger (1880-1896); deeds and records of property owned in the far west and south, including holdings in Panther, West Virginia, in coal and timber (c1895-c1950); legal material for the Sibley Estate, and the estates of individual family members; and records of charitable contributions in Rochester and New York City. The later sections (circa 1920-1950) of the Panther, West Virginia, materials pertain to Harper Sibley.
Hiram Sibley Family Papers
Author: Hiram Watson Sibley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
The collection consists primarily of the business and legal records of the Sibley family, including Hiram, Hiram Watson, and Harper. The Hiram Sibley material is generally concerned-with the Russian-American Telegraph Co., and consists of correspondence, notes, printed material, and translations from as well as documents in Russian. There is also a small amount of family correspondence and material. The Hiram Watson Sibley section consists of business correspondence between Hiram, Hiram Watson, Hobart Atkinson and other members of the firm. Some of this material is also personal, since the partners were related to each other by marriage. There are also the records of the firm Sibley and Bearinger (1880-1896); deeds and records of property owned in the far west and south, including holdings in Panther, West Virginia, in coal and timber (c1895-c1950); legal material for the Sibley Estate, and the estates of individual family members; and records of charitable contributions in Rochester and New York City. The later sections (circa 1920-1950) of the Panther, West Virginia, materials pertain to Harper Sibley.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
The collection consists primarily of the business and legal records of the Sibley family, including Hiram, Hiram Watson, and Harper. The Hiram Sibley material is generally concerned-with the Russian-American Telegraph Co., and consists of correspondence, notes, printed material, and translations from as well as documents in Russian. There is also a small amount of family correspondence and material. The Hiram Watson Sibley section consists of business correspondence between Hiram, Hiram Watson, Hobart Atkinson and other members of the firm. Some of this material is also personal, since the partners were related to each other by marriage. There are also the records of the firm Sibley and Bearinger (1880-1896); deeds and records of property owned in the far west and south, including holdings in Panther, West Virginia, in coal and timber (c1895-c1950); legal material for the Sibley Estate, and the estates of individual family members; and records of charitable contributions in Rochester and New York City. The later sections (circa 1920-1950) of the Panther, West Virginia, materials pertain to Harper Sibley.
Wired into Nature
Author: James Schwoch
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252050452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research with bold interpretation, James Schwoch details the unexplored dimensions of the frontier telegraph and its impact. The westward spread of telegraphy entailed encounters with environments that challenged Americans to acquire knowledge of natural history, climate, and a host of other fields. Telegraph codes and ciphers, meanwhile, became important political, military, and economic secrets. Schwoch shows how the government's use of commercial networks drove a relationship between the two sectors that served increasingly expansionist aims. He also reveals the telegraph's role in securing high ground and encouraging surveillance. Both became vital aspects of the American effort to contain, and conquer, the West's indigenous peoples—and part of a historical arc of concerns about privacy, data gathering, and surveillance that remains pertinent today. Entertaining and enlightening, Wired into Nature explores an unknown history of the West.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252050452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research with bold interpretation, James Schwoch details the unexplored dimensions of the frontier telegraph and its impact. The westward spread of telegraphy entailed encounters with environments that challenged Americans to acquire knowledge of natural history, climate, and a host of other fields. Telegraph codes and ciphers, meanwhile, became important political, military, and economic secrets. Schwoch shows how the government's use of commercial networks drove a relationship between the two sectors that served increasingly expansionist aims. He also reveals the telegraph's role in securing high ground and encouraging surveillance. Both became vital aspects of the American effort to contain, and conquer, the West's indigenous peoples—and part of a historical arc of concerns about privacy, data gathering, and surveillance that remains pertinent today. Entertaining and enlightening, Wired into Nature explores an unknown history of the West.
Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845–1893
Author: Joshua D. Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107244579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles that raged over Western Union's monopoly on nineteenth-century American telecommunications - in Congress, in courts, and in the press - illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of American political economy. The telegraph debate reveals that what we understand as the normative relationship between private capital and public interest is the product of a historical process that was neither inevitable nor uncontested. Western Union's monopoly was not the result of market logic or a managerial revolution, but the conscious creation of entrepreneurs protecting their investments. In the process, these entrepreneurs elevated economic liberalism above traditional republican principles of public interest and helped create a new corporate order.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107244579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles that raged over Western Union's monopoly on nineteenth-century American telecommunications - in Congress, in courts, and in the press - illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of American political economy. The telegraph debate reveals that what we understand as the normative relationship between private capital and public interest is the product of a historical process that was neither inevitable nor uncontested. Western Union's monopoly was not the result of market logic or a managerial revolution, but the conscious creation of entrepreneurs protecting their investments. In the process, these entrepreneurs elevated economic liberalism above traditional republican principles of public interest and helped create a new corporate order.
Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hiram Sibley
History of the Sibley Family
The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920
Author: David Hochfelder
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407973
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407973
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
The Sibley Family in America, 1629-1972
The Russian Empire and Soviet Union
Author: Steven A. Grant
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Telecommunications Research Resources
Author: James K. Bracken
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000149145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
As the telecommunication and information field expands and becomes more varied, so do publications about these technologies and industries. This book is a first attempt to provide a general guide to that wealth of English-language publications -- both books and periodicals -- on all aspects of telecommunication. It is a comprehensive, evaluative sourcebook for telecommunications research in the United States that brings together a topically-arranged, cross-referenced, and indexed volume in one place. The information provided is only available by consulting a succession of different directories, guides, bibliographies, yearbooks, and other resources. On the one hand, it is a directory that describes in detail the major entities that comprise the American telecommunication research infrastructure including federal and state government offices and agencies, and private, public, and corporate research institutions. On the other hand, it is a bibliography that identifies and assesses the most important and useful reference and critical resources about U.S. telecommunication history, technology, industry and economics, social applications and impacts, plus policy, law and regulations, and role in the global telecommunication marketplace. No existing guide covers all of these aspects in the depth and detail of this volume.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000149145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
As the telecommunication and information field expands and becomes more varied, so do publications about these technologies and industries. This book is a first attempt to provide a general guide to that wealth of English-language publications -- both books and periodicals -- on all aspects of telecommunication. It is a comprehensive, evaluative sourcebook for telecommunications research in the United States that brings together a topically-arranged, cross-referenced, and indexed volume in one place. The information provided is only available by consulting a succession of different directories, guides, bibliographies, yearbooks, and other resources. On the one hand, it is a directory that describes in detail the major entities that comprise the American telecommunication research infrastructure including federal and state government offices and agencies, and private, public, and corporate research institutions. On the other hand, it is a bibliography that identifies and assesses the most important and useful reference and critical resources about U.S. telecommunication history, technology, industry and economics, social applications and impacts, plus policy, law and regulations, and role in the global telecommunication marketplace. No existing guide covers all of these aspects in the depth and detail of this volume.
Mount Hope: Rochester, New York
Author: Richard O. Reisem
Publisher: Landmark Soc. of Western New York
ISBN: 0964170639
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Landmark Soc. of Western New York
ISBN: 0964170639
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description