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Author : Charles A. Pleasance
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Independent Telephony written by Charles A. Pleasance and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Telephony written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Telephone Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Converse Beach
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Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Americana written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Telephony written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Telephone Engineer & Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell A. Pizer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438984049
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 2009-09-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tangled Web Of Patent #174,465 is the story of fraud, collusion, perjury, corruption, bribery and what would now be called industrial espionage. It is a story that involves an individual who has been called one of America's inventive geniuses – Alexander Graham Bell. He has been held in the highest regard as the inventor of the telephone. However, careful scrutiny of numerous documents that include thousands of pages of sworn testimony before a Congressional investigations committee, show that Alexander Graham Bell was a party to what might be considered one of the most intriguing historical deceptions. With all due respect to Alexander Graham Bell, he was not the actual perpetrator of this historic fraud. The culprit in the initial historical subterfuge was Bell's father-in-law: Gardiner Greene Hubbard. The Tangled Web. . . will show how Alexander Graham Bell has been falsely given high honors in the history books of the United States depriving the true inventor of the telephone his rightful place. It will be seen that throughout the early years of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell gave different stories about events that surrounded the invention and issuance of a patent of what became – only via legal wranglings – the invention of the telephone. These different stories cast grave doubts about Alexander Graham Bell’s honesty and that of his father-in-law who reaped millions of dollars in profits through what became a telephone monopoly. This story clearly represents examples of two adages. "Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive" and "Truth is stranger than fiction."
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 1354 pages
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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Electrical Engineering and Telephone Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-2 include a "Syntopical index to current electrical literature".
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Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book Sound Waves written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Telephone Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan Independent Telephone & Traffic Ass'n v. Michigan Railroad Commission, 190 MICH 337 (1916) written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 165
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Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New York Review of the Telegraph and Telephone and Electrical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Schiller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197639259
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Crossed Wires written by Dan Schiller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled US imperialism through a a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications. Three other key findings wind through the book. First, business users of networks--more than carriers, and certainly more than residential users--have repeatedly determined how telecommunications systems have developed. Second, despite their current importance for virtually every sphere of social life, networks have been consecrated above all to aiding the circulation of commodities. Finally, although the preferences of executives and officials have broadly determined outcomes, these elites have repeatedly had to contend against the ideas and organizations of workers, social movement activists, and other reformers. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of US telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative--and contested--political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.
