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Author : Joseph Lee Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Connecticut Pioneers in Telephony written by Joseph Lee Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Joseph Leigh WALSH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Connecticut Pioneers in Telephony. The Origin and Growth of the Telephone Industry in Connecticut. [With Plates, Including Portraits.]. written by Joseph Leigh WALSH and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allerton Frank Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book "Giving Wings to Words!" written by Allerton Frank Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James K. Bracken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000149145
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Telecommunications Research Resources written by James K. Bracken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the telecommunication and information field expands and becomes more varied, so do publications about these technologies and industries. This book is a first attempt to provide a general guide to that wealth of English-language publications -- both books and periodicals -- on all aspects of telecommunication. It is a comprehensive, evaluative sourcebook for telecommunications research in the United States that brings together a topically-arranged, cross-referenced, and indexed volume in one place. The information provided is only available by consulting a succession of different directories, guides, bibliographies, yearbooks, and other resources. On the one hand, it is a directory that describes in detail the major entities that comprise the American telecommunication research infrastructure including federal and state government offices and agencies, and private, public, and corporate research institutions. On the other hand, it is a bibliography that identifies and assesses the most important and useful reference and critical resources about U.S. telecommunication history, technology, industry and economics, social applications and impacts, plus policy, law and regulations, and role in the global telecommunication marketplace. No existing guide covers all of these aspects in the depth and detail of this volume.
Author : Ainissa Ramirez
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542269
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Alchemy of Us written by Ainissa Ramirez and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “timely, informative, and fascinating” study of 8 inventions—and how they shaped our world—with “totally compelling” insights on little-known inventors throughout history (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction) In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines 8 inventions and reveals how they shaped the human experience: • Clocks • Steel rails • Copper communication cables • Photographic film • Light bulbs • Hard disks • Scientific labware • Silicon chips Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway’s writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid’s cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but also how those materials shaped culture, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking, bias, and convention. Doing so, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it's splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR.
Author : Claude S. Fischer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915003
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book America Calling written by Claude S. Fischer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology—how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three California communities, Fischer uncovers how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century. Women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then later wholeheartedly promoted. Again and again Fischer finds that the telephone supported a wide-ranging network of social relations and played a crucial role in community life, especially for women, from organizing children's relationships and church activities to alleviating the loneliness and boredom of rural life. Deftly written and meticulously researched, America Calling adds an important new chapter to the social history of our nation and illuminates a fundamental aspect of cultural modernism that is integral to contemporary life.
Author : Richard R. John
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088131
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Network Nation written by Richard R. John and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a progressive political economy that idealized public utility and disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasnÕt until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in 1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.
Author : Robert MacDougall
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812245695
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The People's Network written by Robert MacDougall and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional autonomy. As the Bell empire grew, independents fought fiercely to retain control of their local networks and companies—a struggle with an emerging corporate giant that has been almost entirely forgotten. The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived.
Author : Venus Green
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325734
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Race on the Line written by Venus Green and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A labor history of women workers in the early years of the telephone industry.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell A. Pizer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438984022
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Tangled Web of Patent #174465 written by Russell A. Pizer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tangled Web of Patent #174,465 is a story that involves an individual who has been called one of America's inventive geniuses. He has been held in the highest regard as the inventor of the telephone. However, careful scrutiny of hundreds of documents that include thousands of pages of sworn testimony before a Congressional investigations committee beginning in April of 1886, show that A.G. Bell was a party to what might be considered one of America's most far-reaching historical deceptions. With all due respect to A.G. Bell, he was not the actual perpetrator of this historic fraud. The culprit in this historical subterfuge was A.G. Bell's father-in-law: Gardiner Greene Hubbard.
Author : Gregory J. Downey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135315752
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Telegraph Messenger Boys written by Gregory J. Downey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beyond the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about.
Author : Ronald R. Kline
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862489
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Consumers in the Country written by Ronald R. Kline and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-04-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies–the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power–transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how exactly–and with what levels of resistance and acceptance–did this change take place? In Consumers in the Country Ronald R. Kline, avoiding the trap of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life professionals, government agencies, sales people, and others who promoted these technologies and the farm families who largely succeeded in adapting them to rural culture.
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 : Christopher H. Sterling
Publisher : Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Telecommunications Technology written by Christopher H. Sterling and published by Rlpg/Galleys. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists some 2,500 English-language works related to the history of major telecommunications technologies over the past 175 years. In addition to having sections devoted to the various media of communication (radio, television, the Internet, etc.) the work covers institutional histories, personal biographies, general surveys, and reference works. This is an updated version of the 1972 work Bibliography of the History of Electronics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Manley R. Irwin
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9780899300290
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Telecommunications America written by Manley R. Irwin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1984-05-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Robertson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608197387
Total Pages : 1067 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Robertson's Book of Firsts written by Patrick Robertson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely unlike any encyclopedia before it, The Book of Firsts is the product of decades of archiving and research from the incredible Patrick Robertson. For many years the proprietor of a stock photo archive and collector of all forms of ephemera, Robertson boasts a library that includes ads, clippings, and archival materials going back well over 100 years. In this amazing work, Robertson indexes and describes the things he considers socially relevant, such as the first black head of a white government (it's not who you think), the first baby carriage, and the first department store. He writes about all this with an unparalleled knowledge and impossible-to-fake fluency with a staggering number of subjects. What's more, Robertson renders this massive reference with subtle but distinctive humor, and an eye for fascinating detail. Every entry in this book includes a first time in America, and many also have firsts from elsewhere in the world. With a handsome design and an oversized trim, this will be both a groundbreaking work of reference and a beautiful gift for trivia heads.
