Telegraph in America, 1832–1920

AvDavid Hochfelder

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-02-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421407470

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David Hochfelder is an associate professor of history at University at Albany, SUNY.

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In The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920, David Hochfelder provides a taut and consistently intelligent history of the telegraph in American life. The book is notable for both its topical breadth-encompassing war, politics, business, journalism, and everyday life-as well as its focused, argument-driven chapters. New Books in Communications The author... develops nuanced analyses to the impact of telegraphy on upon American life. EH.Net Hochfelder's work is exemplary in its caution about mediator technology-specific claims to exceptionalism or determinism. This authoritative and persuasive book will remain an essential reference for scholars. American Historical Review For a quick assessment of telegraphy's development and impact, this insightful book is hard to beat. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly While offering new insights into the relationship between Western Union and Associated Press, Hochfelder's strongest contribution to the history of telegraphy is his analysis of wiring on financial markets and the subsequent spread of speculation and gambling fueled by private wires and telegraph ticker services. MAKE: A Literary Magazine Heavily researched and very clearly presented. Journal of American History Hochfelder left no stone unturned in this well balanced and scholarly examination of the telegraph, those it served, and the impact it had on society. The Michigan Railfan

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Why the Telegraph Was Revolutionary1. "Here the Telegraph Came Forceably into Play"2. "As a Telegraph for the People It Is a Signal Failure"3. "There Is a Public Voracity for Telegraphic News"4. "The Ticker Is Always a Treacherous Servant"5. "Western Union, by Grace of FCC and A.T.&T."Conclusion The Promise of TelegraphyChronology of the American Telegraph IndustryNotesEssay on SourcesIndex