Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1328

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Author: Dan Schiller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197639259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833

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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.

Author: Douglas Gomery
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415969000
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Independent regulatory commissions
Languages : en
Pages : 1326

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Author: Christopher Beauchamp
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744543
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876 stands as one of the great touchstones of American technological achievement. Bringing a new perspective to this history, Invented by Law examines the legal battles that raged over Bell’s telephone patent, likely the most consequential patent right ever granted. To a surprising extent, Christopher Beauchamp shows, the telephone was as much a creation of American law as of scientific innovation. Beauchamp reconstructs the world of nineteenth-century patent law, replete with inventors, capitalists, and charlatans, where rival claimants and political maneuvering loomed large in the contests that erupted over new technologies. He challenges the popular myth of Bell as the telephone’s sole inventor, exposing that story’s origins in the arguments advanced by Bell’s lawyers. More than anyone else, it was the courts that anointed Bell father of the telephone, granting him a patent monopoly that decisively shaped the American telecommunications industry for a century to come. Beauchamp investigates the sources of Bell’s legal primacy in the United States, and looks across the Atlantic, to Britain, to consider how another legal system handled the same technology in very different ways. Exploring complex questions of ownership and legal power raised by the invention of important new technologies, Invented by Law recovers a forgotten history with wide relevance for today’s patent crisis.

Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208

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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1176

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