Author: Frank Pope
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368843338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author: David Hochfelder
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407973
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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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.

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Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250618398
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23

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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: George Worthington
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Edward Wyllys Hyde
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Category : Arches
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Frank Clinton Perkins
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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Languages : en
Pages : 999

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