Article ID: CBB000100550

Displaying the American genius: The electromagnetic telegraph in the wider world (2001)

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Description Shows how the success of Morse's (1791-1872) electromagnetic telegraph was due to his success in politicizing the invention by making it a matter of national prestige.


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Authors & Contributors
Kathke, Torsten
Jean-François Fava-Verde
John, Richard R.
Schwarz, Frederic
Wolpin, Stewart
IEEW,
Journals
Technology and Culture
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Journal of the Communications Network
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica
Publishers
Transcript Verlag
Springer
Princeton University Press
Praeger
IEEE
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Concepts
Telegraphs; telephones
Technology
Inventors and invention
Communication technology
Technology and politics
Electricity; magnetism
People
Bell, Alexander Graham
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
Tesla, Nikola
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Collins, Perry McDonough
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Western states (U.S.)
Spain
Russia
Portugal
Institutions
Motorola
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
United States. Patent Office
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