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The Telegraph in America, 1832--1920 (2012)

Hochfelder, David P. (Author)

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN: 9781421407470

Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: viii + 250 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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Telegraphs; telephones Telegraphy Methods of communication; media 19th century 20th century, early United States

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. Hochfelder thus supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.

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Review Simone Müller-Pohl (2012) Review of "The Telegraph in America, 1832--1920". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 249-250). unapi

Review Arceneaux, Noah (2013) Review of "The Telegraph in America, 1832--1920". Technology and Culture (pp. 665-666). unapi

Review Goodman, David (2013) Review of "The Telegraph in America, 1832--1920". American Historical Review (p. 1535). unapi

Review MacDougall, Robert (2014) Review of "The Telegraph in America, 1832--1920". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 231). unapi

Review Blondheim, Menahem (2014) Review of "The Telegraph in America, 1832--1920". Journal of American History (pp. 601-602). unapi

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