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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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The American Telephone Journal ...
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Pages : 148
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Pages : 148
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America Calling
Author: Claude S. Fischer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520086473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Annotation 'In his study of the telephone in American society, Fishcer confronts the most significant, but also the most difficult, question we can ask about a new technology--what differences did it make in the lives of its users?'Roland Marchand
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520086473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Annotation 'In his study of the telephone in American society, Fishcer confronts the most significant, but also the most difficult, question we can ask about a new technology--what differences did it make in the lives of its users?'Roland Marchand
The Multiple Telegraph
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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The People's Network
Author: Robert MacDougall
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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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
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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.
Journal ...
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 1224
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Pages : 1224
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The American Telephone Journal
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Technical Data Digest
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Telephony
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Bell Telephone Magazine
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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