Download or read book The Telegraph in America 1832 1920 written by David Hochfelder and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Telegraph in America written by James D. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph written by William Maver and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Telegraphy written by William Maver (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph Systems Apparatus Operation written by William Maver (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph Systems Apparatus Operation Embracing Electrical Testing Primary and Storage Batteries Dyn written by William Maver and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph written by William Maver (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Telegraph Practice written by Donald Monroe McNicol and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph written by William Maver and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony in American History written by Zachary Kent and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John White returned to Roanoke Island in 1590, the English colony he had left there three years earlier was abandoned. The only traces of the 117 colonists were letters carved on trees. The search to discover the fate of the missing Roanoke Island settlers has gone on for over four hundred years. The mystery remains unsolved today. In The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony in American History, an exciting addition to the "In American History" series, Zachary Kent examines the lost colony at Roanoke. Through fast-paced story telling and quotes from historic men and women, Kent helps readers understand the background and history of the Roanoke experiment. The author also discusses modern attempts to solve the disappearance. Book jacket.
Download or read book AMER TELEGRAPHY ENCY OF THE written by William Jr. Maver and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph written by William Maver (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph written by William Maver Jr. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph: Systems, Apparatus, Operation While a number of the systems and improvements referred to have, at different times, and at more or less length, been described in electrical books and periodicals, the writer is not aware that even a majority of them has been fully described in any one book, and thus a knowledge of them placed within easy reach of the ordinary student of telegraphy. Believing that such a book would be of value, the attempt has been made, in the present work, to supply a comprehensive account of the systems of telegraphy now in use in America, and as such an account naturally includes sources of electromotive force employed, line construction, line and apparatus testing, etc., those subjects have also been dwelt upon at some length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Telegraphy After 100 Years written by Western Union Telegraph Company. Committee on Technical Publication and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wired into Nature written by James Schwoch and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The American Telegrapher written by Edwin Gabler and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1883, the Brotherhood of Telegraphers, a nationwide union affiliated with the Knights of Labor, began what proved to be an unsuccessful strike against Western Union. The strike was well publicized, for it pitted a new group of middle-class employees against an enormous corporation headed by Jay Gould. Using the strike as a starting point, [the author] has written a social history of American telegraphy in the late nineteenth century, exploring the backgrounds, values, and experiences of the men and women who worked as operators."--Page 4 of cover.
