Download or read book Eyewitness to Early American Telegraphy written by Alfred Vail and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating a book and two reports, this anthology offers an invaluable primary source of information on the beginnings of American telegraphy. Vail's book relates the history of telegraphy to 1845 while the initial report describes the firs American telegraph service. The second report, compiled by Vail's son, presents excerpts from Vail's diaries and letter relating to the telegraph.
Download or read book Eyewitness to early American telegraphy written by Alfred Vail and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eyewitness to Early American Telegraphy written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Language Machines written by Jeffrey Masten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Machines questions any easily progressive model of technological change, demonstrating the persistence rather than the obsolescence of language technologies over time, the continuous and complicated overlap of pens, presses, screens and voice. In these essays new technologies do not simply replace, but rather draw upon, absorb, displace and resituate earlier technologies.
Download or read book Technology Pessimism and Postmodernism written by Yaron Ezrahi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOWARD P. SEGAL, FOR THE EDITORS In November 1979 the Humanities Department of the University of Michi gan's College of Engineering sponsored a symposium on ''Technology and Pessimism. " The symposium included scholars from a variety of fields and carefully balanced critics and defenders of modern technology, broadly defined. Although by this point it was hardly revolutionary to suggest that technology was no longer automatically equated with optimism and in turn with unceasing social advance, the idea of linking technology so explicitly with pessimism was bound to attract attention. Among others, John Noble Wilford, a New York Times science and technology correspondent, not only covered the symposium but also wrote about it at length in the Times the following week. As Wilford observed, "Whatever their disagreements, the participants agreed that a mood of pessimism is overtaking and may have already displaced the old optimistic view of history as a steady and cumulative expansion of human power, the idea of inevitable progress born in the Scientific and Industrial Rev olutions and dominant in the 19th century and for at least the first half of this century. " Such pessimism, he continued, "is fed by growing doubts about soci ety's ability to rein in the seemingly runaway forces of technology, though the participants conceded that in many instances technology was more the symbol than the substance of the problem.
Download or read book Charles Dickens in Cyberspace written by Jay Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates.
Download or read book Special Reports on American Broadcasting 1932 1947 written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant anthology contains four important documents which offer the reader an unusual overview of the radio broadcasting industry during its heyday. First, there is a letter from the FRC Chairman to the Senate answering questions on commercial and educational AM broadcasting. The second document contains a detailed analysis of broadcasting in the mid-1930s just before the inception of FM and television competition. The next offering is the report of a two-year investigation of the role, history and operations of CBS, NBC and Mutual up to 1940. The final section contains a detailed analysis of changes in American broadcasting in the post-war years of expansion when radio had to meet the challenge of FM and television. Because of the official nature of the documents in this anthology which contains a wealth of statistical data, Special Reports on American Broadcasting, 1932-1947 constitutes a vital addition to any library.
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Download or read book Eyewitness Companions Weather written by The Met Office and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worried about the heat wave—could it be the resultof global warming? One of the most topical issues of our time is the subject ofthe newest Eyewitness Companion: Weather. All you need to know about cloud patterns, violent storms, their causes and repercussions can be found in thisone comprehensive but portable volume. This book will explain the real science behind the weather, from how it works to how it''s changing.
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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Books Transportation written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All new content. Eyewitness Transportation introduces readers to the world of trains, planes, automobiles, and more! We explore the world of transportation, and transportation around the world. From the origins of all manner of wagons, bicycles, cars, and trains to the newest technological advances and beyond, no wheel is left unturned.
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Haunted Media written by Jeffrey Sconce and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the repeated association of new electronic media with spiritual phenomena from the telegraph in the late 19th century to television.
