Article ID: CBB001180039

Telegraph messenger boys: Crossing the borders between history of technology and human geography (2003)

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Description Historians of telegraphy have traditionally focused on the system-builders who invented wire communications technologies and incorporated them into profit-making enterprises. Geographers of communications have traditionally traced the changes that the telegraph network wrought on the rank-size of cities and the speed of business. Both have ignored the history of the telegraph messenger boys and the “lived geography” of the telegraph network. This article summarizes a study of telegraph messengers as both active components of technological systems and laboring agents within produced urban spaces, bringing together the fields of both history of technology and human geography. (from the abstract on http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0033-0124.5502002/abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Hampf, Michaela
Müller-Pohl, Simone
Kathke, Torsten
Sprenger, Florian
Lanny Tompson
Jonas Harvard
Journals
Business History Review
Antenna
Publishers
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Princeton University Press
Campus Verlag
Concepts
Telegraphy
Communication
Economics
Urban history
Information technology
Historical geography
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Puerto Rico
Palestine
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