The Multiple Telegraph

The Multiple Telegraph
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Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89067662429
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Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Multiple Telegraph by : Alexander Graham Bell

The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony in American History

The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony in American History
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Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0766021475
ISBN-13 : 9780766021471
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony in American History by : Zachary Kent

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.

Revolutions in Communication

Revolutions in Communication
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9781628924787
ISBN-13 : 1628924780
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Revolutions in Communication by : Bill Kovarik

Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. Updated to reflect new research that has surfaced these past few years, Revolutions in Communication continues to provide students and teachers with the most readable history of communications, while including enough international perspective to get the most accurate sense of the field. The supplemental reading materials on the companion website include slideshows, podcasts and video demonstration plans in order to facilitate further reading.

The Train and the Telegraph

The Train and the Telegraph
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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9781421429748
ISBN-13 : 1421429748
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Train and the Telegraph by : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes

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.

The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920

The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781421407975
ISBN-13 : 1421407973
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 by : David Hochfelder

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.

Dot-Dash to Dot.Com

Dot-Dash to Dot.Com
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9781441967602
ISBN-13 : 1441967605
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Dot-Dash to Dot.Com by : Andrew Wheen

Telecommunications is a major global industry, and this unique book chronicles the development of this complex technology from the electric telegraph to the Internet in a simple, accessible, and entertaining way. The book opens with the early years of the electric telegraph. The reader will learn how the Morse telegraph evolved into an international network that spanned the globe, starting with the development of international undersea cables, and the heroic attempts to lay a trans-Atlantic cable. The book describes the events that led to the invention of the telephone, and the subsequent disputes over who had really invented it. It takes a look at some of the most important applications that have appeared on the Internet, the mobile revolution, and ends with a discussion of future key developments in the telecommunications industry.

Network Nation

Network Nation
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 532
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ISBN-10 : 067402429X
ISBN-13 : 9780674024298
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Network Nation by : Richard R. John

Making a neighborhood of a nation -- Professor Morse's lightning -- Antimonopoly -- The new postalic dispensation -- Rich man's mail -- The talking telegraph -- Telephomania -- Second nature -- Gray wolves -- Universal service -- One great medium?