Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2472
Book Description
Investigation of Conditions in the Wire Communications Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2472
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2472
Book Description
Crossed Wires
Author: Dan Schiller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197639232
Category : Telecommunications
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
"During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US territorial empire but, despite this overarching commonality, they branched apart in other ways. One network was owned by the state and the other by capital, and the two branches of the telecommunications system developed disparate rate structures, patterns of access, and social and institutional relationships. During the decades after the Civil War their divergence became politically charged. Would one model prevail over the other? Going forward, would it be the government Post Office or the corporate telegraph that set the terms of telecommunications development? The Post Office was the nation's originating system for communication at a distance. Both before and long after it was elevated to a cabinet department in 1829, furthermore, the Post Office was by far the largest unit of the central state. In 1831, the nation's 8700 postmasters comprised three-quarters of federal civilian employment; half a century later (excluding temporary postal employees and ordinary and railway mail clerks and letter carriers), some 50,000 postmasters accounted for perhaps one-third of all civilian employees in the executive branch. Though its relative weight as a government employer diminished after this, its workforce continued to swell. During the last two antebellum decades, meanwhile, an emergent technology - the electrical telegraph - was passed quickly from the federal government to private capital. The two systems' institutional identities immediately began to contrast in other ways"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197639232
Category : Telecommunications
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
"During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US territorial empire but, despite this overarching commonality, they branched apart in other ways. One network was owned by the state and the other by capital, and the two branches of the telecommunications system developed disparate rate structures, patterns of access, and social and institutional relationships. During the decades after the Civil War their divergence became politically charged. Would one model prevail over the other? Going forward, would it be the government Post Office or the corporate telegraph that set the terms of telecommunications development? The Post Office was the nation's originating system for communication at a distance. Both before and long after it was elevated to a cabinet department in 1829, furthermore, the Post Office was by far the largest unit of the central state. In 1831, the nation's 8700 postmasters comprised three-quarters of federal civilian employment; half a century later (excluding temporary postal employees and ordinary and railway mail clerks and letter carriers), some 50,000 postmasters accounted for perhaps one-third of all civilian employees in the executive branch. Though its relative weight as a government employer diminished after this, its workforce continued to swell. During the last two antebellum decades, meanwhile, an emergent technology - the electrical telegraph - was passed quickly from the federal government to private capital. The two systems' institutional identities immediately began to contrast in other ways"--
To Regulate Interstate Commerce in Bituminous Coal
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Bituminous coal
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Publisher:
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Category : Bituminous coal
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Investigation of Feasibility and Desirability of Fixing Railroad Rates on the Basis of Zones
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Telegraph Messenger Boys
Author: Gregory J. Downey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113531568X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113531568X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
Investigation of Regulatory Commissions and Agencies
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Independent regulatory commissions
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Independent regulatory commissions
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Study of International Communications
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce. Subcommittee on International Communications
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Study of International Communications
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
U.S. Government Purchasing and Sales Directory
Author: United States. Small Business Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Government purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description