Download or read book Chapters of Telegraph History written by Henry Brooks O'Rielly and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Telegraph written by Lewis Coe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-11-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the telegraph marked a new era in communication. For the first time, people were able to communicate quickly from great distances. The genesis of Morse's invention is covered in detail, starting in 1832, along with the establishment of the first transcontinental telegraph line in the United States and the dramatic effect the device had on the Civil War. The Morse telegraph that served the world for over 100 years is explained in clear terms. Also examined are recent advances in telegraph technology and its continued impact on communication.
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 History of Telegraphy written by K. G. Beauchamp and published by IET. This book was released on 2001 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauchamp (1923-99, retired from the U. of Lancaster, UK) devotes the first half of the book to terrestrial telegraphy, from the beginnings of communication with mechanical signaling to the electrical system using Morse code, including a large chapter on the laying of submarine cables across the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. The second half, on aerial telegraphy, discusses its beginnings with Marconi and its use on board ships and aircraft in both world wars. Dozens of maps show routes of telegraph cable and figures depict old telegraph equipment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book How the Telegraph Changed the World written by William J. Phalen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invented in the 1830's, the telegraph soon became indispensable. By 1851 there were more than 50 companies providing telegraphic service in the United States alone. The telegraph played a pivotal role in warfare beginning with the American Civil War, featured prominently in the creation of the first large American corporation, Western Union, and made possible long distance communication with the laying of the transatlantic cable. This book describes the global impact of the telegraph from its advent to its eventual eclipse by the telephone four decades later.
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph written by Alexander Jones and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Telegraph Manual written by Taliaferro Preston Shaffner and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Telegraph Manual: A Complete History and Description of the Semaphoric, Electric and Magnetic Telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Ancient and ModernIN the preparation of this volume, the author has not advanced theories, other than those which are founded upon demonstrated philosophy. It is to be understood, however, that many of the views expressed concerning questions in the sciences may, from time to time, be modified by new develop ments. In every instance, the opinions given are based upon the known sciences as manifested through the medium of the arts, and more particularly the electric telegraph.I have reviewed the early semaphore telegraphs, and ex plained their respective modes of operation. These visual systems have, however, ceased to be employed by civilized nations, except for the marine service.As preliminary to the consideration of the electric telegraph, I have introduced a few chapters explanatory of the sciences immediately blended in that art; such, for example, as static and voltaic electricities, magnetism, and electro-magnetism. These questions of philosophy the telegrapher should most carefully study. The data given are from the most reliable authorities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 The Telegraph Manual written by Taliaferro Preston Shaffner and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History Theory and Practice of the Electric Telegraph written by George B. Prescott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book The History and Progress of the Electric Telegraph written by Robert Sabine and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph Including Its Rise and Progress in the United States written by Alexander Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Electric Telegraphy to the Year 1837 written by John Joseph Fahie and published by London : E. & F.N. Spon. This book was released on 1884 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Train and the Telegraph written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book History Theory and Practice of the Electric Telegraph written by George Bartlett Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Victorian Internet written by Tom Standage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first. The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph Including Its Rise and Progress in the United States written by Alexander Jones and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
