Article ID: CBB001030918

The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation (2006)

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MacDougall, Robert Duncan (Author)


American Quarterly
Volume: 58
Pages: 715--741


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies
Language: English

Description Looks at a series of pulp novels published from the 1890s to the 1910s.


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Article Vaidhyanathan, Siva (2006) Introduction: Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies. American Quarterly (p. 555). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Beauchamp, Christopher
Bills, Emily
Downey, Gregory John
Gitelman, Lisa L.
John, Richard R.
MacDougall, Robert Duncan
Journals
Technology and Culture
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of Global History
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Harvard University
Princeton University
Yale University
Indiana University
Cambridge University Press
New York University
Concepts
Telegraphs; telephones
Communication technology
Technology
Technology and society
Methods of communication; media
Inventors and invention
People
Bell, Alexander Graham
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Alaska (U.S.)
California (U.S.)
Asia
Canada
Institutions
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Marconi Company
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