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Book 100  One Hundred  Years of Telephone Switching  1878 1978

Download or read book 100 One Hundred Years of Telephone Switching 1878 1978 written by Robert CHAPUIS and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 100 Years of Telephone Switching  1878 1978

Download or read book 100 Years of Telephone Switching 1878 1978 written by Robert J. Chapuis and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 100 Years of Telephone Switching  1878 1978

Download or read book 100 Years of Telephone Switching 1878 1978 written by Robert J. Chapuis and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 100 Years of Telephone Switching  1878 1978   Manual and electromechanical switching  1878 1960s

Download or read book 100 Years of Telephone Switching 1878 1978 Manual and electromechanical switching 1878 1960s written by Robert J. Chapuis and published by North-Holland. This book was released on 1982 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Invisible Empire

Download or read book Invisible Empire written by Jean-Guy Rens and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-07-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to understand Canada without looking at the history and development of its telecommunications industry. In the nineteenth century Canada was the only country in the world constructed on the basis of technology - first the railway and, in its shadow, telegraphy. In the 1930s this technological nationalism came of age and telecommunications became Canada's "national" technology. The Invisible Empire provides the first overview of Canadian telecommunications, from the laying of the first telegraph line between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846 to the separation between Nortel - then known as Northern Electric - and the American Bell System in 1956. Rens shows us that Louis Riel was beaten as much by telegraphy as by the Canadian army, and how Bell Canada - then known as Bell Telephone - escaped nationalization by Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government. He follows the construction of the first trans-Canadian telephone line in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s and explains why, in the context of the Cold War, Canada built an electronic Great Wall of China in the far North. Rens examines the context that allowed the telecommunications industry to take hold so successfully in Canada and explores how the industry grew so quickly and managed to escape American domination. He situates Canadian accomplishments in telecommunications by comparing them with those of other countries.

Book Network Nation

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  • Author : Richard R. John
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-10-05
  • ISBN : 0674088131
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Network Nation written by Richard R. John and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a progressive political economy that idealized public utility and disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasnÕt until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in 1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.

Book Race on the Line

Download or read book Race on the Line written by Venus Green and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-02 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green—a former Bell System employee and current labor historian—presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the break-up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984. Green shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerized one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the workplace. More than a simple story of the impact of technology, Race on the Line combines oral history, personal experience, and archival research to weave a complicated history of how skill is constructed and how its meanings change within a rapidly expanding industry. Green discusses how women faced an environment where male union leaders displayed economic as well as gender biases and where racism served as a persistent system of division. Separated into chronological sections, the study moves from the early years when the Bell company gave both male and female workers opportunities to advance; to the era of the “white lady” image of the company, when African American women were excluded from the industry and feminist working-class consciousness among white women was consequently inhibited; to the computer era, a time when black women had waged a successful struggle to integrate the telephone operating system but faced technological displacement and unrewarding work. An important study of working-class American women during the twentieth century, this book will appeal to a wide audience, particularly students and scholars with interest in women’s history, labor history, African American history, the history of technology, and business history.

Book The Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 2696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Book Shaping American Telecommunications

Download or read book Shaping American Telecommunications written by Christopher Sterling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping American Telecommunications examines the technical, regulatory, and economic forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This volume is both an introduction to the basic technical, economic, and regulatory principles underlying telecommunications, and a detailed account of major events that have marked development of the sector in the United States. Beginning with the introduction of the telegraph and continuing through to current developments in wireless and online services, authors Christopher H. Sterling, Phyllis W. Bernt, and Martin B.H. Weiss explain each stage of telecommunications development, examining the interplay among technical innovation, policy decisions, and regulatory developments. Offering an integrated treatment of the interplay among technology, policy, and economics as key factors defining the development of the telecommunications sector in the United States, this volume also provides: *background material to facilitate understanding of each sector; *contexts for many so-called "new" issues, problems, and trends, demonstrating origins from years or decades in the past; and *careful annotation, documentation, and reference tables to enable further research on the topics discussed. This unique multidisciplinary approach provides a balanced view of U.S. telecommunications history, in context with relevant economic, legal, social, and technical analyses. As such, it is essential reading for advanced students in telecommunications needing to understand how the telecommunications industry and service developed to its current form. The volume will also serve as a supplemental text in courses on telecommunications regulation, and it will be of value to professionals in the field seeking context and background for their daily work.

Book Clear Across Australia

Download or read book Clear Across Australia written by Ann Moyal and published by Melbourne, Vic. : Nelson. This book was released on 1984 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a 130-year period, Clear across Australia documents Australian technological culture, and provides an overview of Australian telecommunications.

Book American Book Publishing Record

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1983-04 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Telecom History

Download or read book Telecom History written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monographic Series

Download or read book Monographic Series written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Telecommunication Journal

Download or read book Telecommunication Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Telephone

Download or read book Telephone written by John Brooks and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1976 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The wondrous invention that changed a world and spawned a corporate giant"--Jacket subtitle.