Author: John R. Parker
Publisher:
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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American Signal Book, Or, The United States Telegraph Vocabulary
Author: John R. Parker
Publisher:
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Publisher:
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The New Semaphoric Signal Book
Author: John R. Parker
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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The New Semaphoric Signal Book
Author: John Rowe Parker
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Infrastructure and Services
Author: David O. Whitten
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Provides a consolidated history of U.S. business and a guide to a plethora of information sources, indicating what is useful and what is not.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Provides a consolidated history of U.S. business and a guide to a plethora of information sources, indicating what is useful and what is not.
Painting the Inhabited Landscape
Author: Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271093226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different. In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane and investigates the patrons who supported his career, with an eye to understanding how New Englanders thought about their land, their economy, their history, and their links with widely disparate global communities. Lane’s works depict nature as productive and allied in partnership with humans to create a sustainable, balanced political economy. What emerges from this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply resonant with its former uses—and a human history that incorporates, rather than excludes, Native Americans as shapers of land and as agents in that history. Calling attention to unexplored dimensions of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in the scholarship on American art of the period, examining how that body of work commented on American culture and informs our understanding of canon formation.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271093226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different. In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane and investigates the patrons who supported his career, with an eye to understanding how New Englanders thought about their land, their economy, their history, and their links with widely disparate global communities. Lane’s works depict nature as productive and allied in partnership with humans to create a sustainable, balanced political economy. What emerges from this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply resonant with its former uses—and a human history that incorporates, rather than excludes, Native Americans as shapers of land and as agents in that history. Calling attention to unexplored dimensions of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in the scholarship on American art of the period, examining how that body of work commented on American culture and informs our understanding of canon formation.
Regulations for United States Military Telegraph Lines, Alaskan Cables, and Telegraph Stations, U.S. Signal Corps
Author: United States. Army. Signal Corps
Publisher:
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Category : Cables, Submarine
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Cables, Submarine
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Network Nation
Author: Richard R. John
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674088131
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674088131
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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.
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Navy Department Library
Author: United States. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Manual of Visual Signaling of U.S. Signal Corps
Author:
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Category : Signals and signaling
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Publisher:
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Category : Signals and signaling
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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