Book ID: CBB001230799

Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010)

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John, Richard R. (Author)


Belknap Press of Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: viii + 520 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Nye, David E. (2011) Review of "Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications". American Historical Review (pp. 192-193). unapi

Essay Review Mullen, Megan (2012) Demystifying Some Momentous Changes. Technology and Culture (pp. 185-188). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
MacDougall, Robert Duncan
Chapman, Anne
Hume, Natalie
Ma, Shaoling
Jean-François Fava-Verde
Asseraf, Arthur
Concepts
Telegraphs; telephones
Communication technology
Technology and society
Methods of communication; media
Technology
Inventors and invention
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Germany
Institutions
Marconi Company
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
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