Author: Robert W. Garnet
Publisher: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Telephone Enterprise
Author: Robert W. Garnet
Publisher: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The People's Network
Author: Robert MacDougall
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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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Author: Illinois. Public Utilities Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise
Author: Darren E. Tromblay
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 104008379X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Much has been written about U.S. intelligence operations. However, intelligence, as it is conducted in the U.S. domestic environment, has usually been treated in a fractured and sensationalistic manner. This book dispassionately assesses the U.S. domestically oriented intelligence enterprise by first examining its individual components and then sho
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 104008379X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Much has been written about U.S. intelligence operations. However, intelligence, as it is conducted in the U.S. domestic environment, has usually been treated in a fractured and sensationalistic manner. This book dispassionately assesses the U.S. domestically oriented intelligence enterprise by first examining its individual components and then sho
Black Enterprise
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.
The Electrical Review
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Electrician
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Electrical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Atlantic Reporter
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Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica: Submarine Mines-Tom-tom
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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