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 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 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 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 Makers of the Telegraph written by Kenneth B. Lifshitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single-wire telegraph revolutionized long distance communication but it was not the brainchild of one inventor, Samuel Morse. His colleagues and employees--specifically Ezra Cornell and Joseph Henry--made crucial contributions. Examining the careers of the three men and the key events, this book presents Morse as primarily a businessman and consolidator of ideas who, frequently in conflict with his associates, sought to present the telegraph as a uniform system under his sole imprimatur. The battle between Morse and Cornell over the invention of the magnetic relay was central to the drama. What emerges is a complex portrait of three ambitious and brilliant innovators and the age in which they lived.
Download or read book Samuel Morse That s Who written by Tracy Nelson Maurer and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Tracy Nelson Maurer and illustrator El Primo Ramón present a lively picture book biography of Samuel Morse that highlights how he revolutionized modern technology. Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that’s who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions—only if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication forever? Samuel Morse, that’s who! This dynamic and substantive biography celebrates an early technology pioneer.
Download or read book Postal Telegraph in the United States written by Cadwallader Colden Washburn and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Multiple Telegraph written by Alexander Graham Bell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States written by William Rattle Plum and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study of the Telegraph Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph written by Alfred Vail and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book News Over the Wires written by Menahem Blondheim and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique history of telegraphic news gathering and news flow evaluates the effect of the innovative technology on the evolution of the concept of news and journalistic practices. It also addresses problems of technological innovation and diffusion. Menahem Blondheim's main concern, however, is the development of oligopoly in business and the control revolution in American society. He traces the discovery of timely news as a commodity, presenting a lively and detailed account of the emergence of the New York Associated Press (AP) as the first private sector national monopoly in the United States and Western Union as the first industrial one.
Download or read book The Proposed Union of the Telegraph and Postal Systems written by Western Union Telegraph Company and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Authorize a Complete Study of the Telegraph Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Atlantic Telegraph 1865 written by Sir William Howard Russell and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1865 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
