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Author : John Joseph Fahie
Publisher : London : E. & F.N. Spon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Electric Telegraphy, to the Year 1837 written by John Joseph Fahie and published by London : E. & F.N. Spon. This book was released on 1884 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Francis Ronalds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph written by Sir Francis Ronalds and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hochfelder
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421407973
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 written by David Hochfelder and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. 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. With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.
Author : James D. Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Telegraph in America written by James D. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an often cited panoramic history of the telegraph which discusses the principal telegraph firms and the key persons within them. Throughout his work, Reid stresses the business and economic aspects of marketing this remarkable scientific invention. The importance of The Telegraph in America as a classic reference in the field is under-scored by the fact that the author was active in telegraphy throughout the period he discusses. He thus had a personal knowledge of persons and events under examination.
Author : K. G. Beauchamp
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 0852967926
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (529 download)
Download or read book History of Telegraphy written by K. G. Beauchamp and published by IET. This book was released on 2001 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauchamp (1923-99, retired from the U. of Lancaster, UK) devotes the first half of the book to terrestrial telegraphy, from the beginnings of communication with mechanical signaling to the electrical system using Morse code, including a large chapter on the laying of submarine cables across the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. The second half, on aerial telegraphy, discusses its beginnings with Marconi and its use on board ships and aircraft in both world wars. Dozens of maps show routes of telegraph cable and figures depict old telegraph equipment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Geoffrey Hubbard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135028494
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Cooke and Wheatstone written by Geoffrey Hubbard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was founded, and the curious route by which it came to England. It discusses the way in which two such antagonistic men were driven into collaboration and sets out the history of the early telegraph lines, including work on the London and Birmingham Railway and the Great Western Railway.
Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156032445
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Dark Light written by Linda Simon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the invention of the telegraph to the discovery of X rays, Simon has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age when Americans welcomed electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes.
Author : Lucy Margaret Rozier
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0385378432
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Jackrabbit McCabe and the Electric Telegraph written by Lucy Margaret Rozier and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fastest man in the West meets his match in this deliciously clever original tall tale. With his extra-long legs, Jackrabbit McCabe can outrun anything on the American frontier: horses, trains, and even twisters. So of course, everyone in the town of Windy Flats always counts on his speed when a message has to get out fast. Then something new comes to town: the telegraph, which can send Morse code messages with the speed of electricity. At first, no one believes the newfangled contraption can deliver a message quicker than Jackrabbit. . . . But in a race between man and machine, who will be left in the dust? An author's note includes information about the invention of the telegraph, a Morse code key, and a riddle written in Morse code for kids to transcribe. "A strikingly accomplished debut.... A terrific tall tale about the costs and opportunities of technology." —Publishers Weekly, Starred "Good, quick-moving fun. Kids may marvel that communication existed before the telephone and Internet." —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250618398
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Samuel Morse, That's Who! written by Tracy Nelson Maurer and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Tracy Nelson Maurer and illustrator El Primo Ramón present a lively picture book biography of Samuel Morse that highlights how he revolutionized modern technology. Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that’s who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions—only if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication forever? Samuel Morse, that’s who! This dynamic and substantive biography celebrates an early technology pioneer.
Author : Tom Standage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635573963
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Internet written by Tom Standage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first. The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.
Author : Beverley Frances Ronalds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783269174
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Sir Francis Ronalds written by Beverley Frances Ronalds and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Founded on cheese -- Scenes in the story -- Frank and his family -- A life of science -- Electrical science and engineering 1810-19 -- Who invented the electric telegraph? -- The grand tour -- A sulphur business opportunity? -- Perspective tracing instruments -- Dr Alexander Blair and the Carnac megaliths -- Science exhibitions: a glimpse into Ronalds' mechanical inventions 1824-41 -- Kew Observatory 1842-55 and beyond -- Atmospheric electricity and meteorology: instruments and observations -- Photographic recording instruments for meteorology and geomagnetism -- Last years and legacy.
Author : Alexander Graham Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Multiple Telegraph written by Alexander Graham Bell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Highton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The electric telegraph: its history and progress written by Edward Highton and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph written by Alexander Jones and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn Marvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198021380
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book When Old Technologies Were New written by Carolyn Marvin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering journals and popular media. Marvin pays particular attention to the telephone, describing how it disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person and family from the more public setting of the community. On the lighter side, she describes how people spoke louder when calling long distance, and how they worried about catching contagious diseases over the phone. A particularly powerful chapter deals with telephonic precursors of radio broadcasting--the "Telephone Herald" in New York and the "Telefon Hirmondo" of Hungary--and the conflict between the technological development of broadcasting and the attempt to impose a homogenous, ethnocentric variant of Anglo-Saxon culture on the public. While focusing on the way professionals in the electronics field tried to control the new media, Marvin also illuminates the broader social impact, presenting a wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining account of the early years of electronic media.
Author : Bill Kovarik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628924780
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Revolutions in Communication written by Bill Kovarik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. Updated to reflect new research that has surfaced these past few years, Revolutions in Communication continues to provide students and teachers with the most readable history of communications, while including enough international perspective to get the most accurate sense of the field. The supplemental reading materials on the companion website include slideshows, podcasts and video demonstration plans in order to facilitate further reading.
Author : Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199726574
Total Pages : 925 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book What Hath God Wrought written by Daniel Walker Howe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. A panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. These innovations prompted the emergence of mass political parties and stimulated America's economic development from an overwhelmingly rural country to a diversified economy in which commerce and industry took their place alongside agriculture. In his story, the author weaves together political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history. Howe examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party, but contends that John Quincy Adams and other Whigs--advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans--were the true prophets of America's future. In addition, Howe reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights and other reform movements, politics, education, and literature. Howe's story of American expansion culminates in the bitterly controversial but brilliantly executed war waged against Mexico to gain California and Texas for the United States. Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize Finalist, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Oxford History of the United States The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.
