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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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The Railroad Telegrapher
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Publisher:
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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The Railroad Telegrapher
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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The Railroad Telegrapher
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
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Railroad Telegrapher
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Category : Telegraphers
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Category : Telegraphers
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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The Train and the Telegraph
Author: Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421429748
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421429748
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.
Ma Kiley
Author: Thomas C. Jepsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780874042757
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the story of Ma Kiley, a Texas-born railroad telegraph operator who worked as a boomer in the American West, Mexico, and Canada in the early 1900s. Although autobiographical writings by women telegraph operators are rare, Ma Kiley left a richly detailed and moving personal account of her life and work in The Bug and I, first published by Railroad Magazine in 1950. This book also includes an introduction which provides background on telegraphy, a little known area of women's work. It attempts to fill in the missing history of women in telegraphy - how women gained access to the field of telegraphy, how they were viewed by their male co-workers, and how women operators struggled to establish their own identities.
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ISBN: 9780874042757
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is the story of Ma Kiley, a Texas-born railroad telegraph operator who worked as a boomer in the American West, Mexico, and Canada in the early 1900s. Although autobiographical writings by women telegraph operators are rare, Ma Kiley left a richly detailed and moving personal account of her life and work in The Bug and I, first published by Railroad Magazine in 1950. This book also includes an introduction which provides background on telegraphy, a little known area of women's work. It attempts to fill in the missing history of women in telegraphy - how women gained access to the field of telegraphy, how they were viewed by their male co-workers, and how women operators struggled to establish their own identities.
My Sisters Telegraphic
Author: Thomas C. Jepsen
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821413430
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"This study also explores the surprising parallels between the telegraphy of the nineteenth century and the work of women in technical fields today. The telegrapher's work, like that of the modern computer programmer, involved translating written language into machine-readable code. And anticipating the Internet by over one hundred years, telegraphers often experienced the gender-neutral aspect of the "cyberspace" they inhabited."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821413430
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"This study also explores the surprising parallels between the telegraphy of the nineteenth century and the work of women in technical fields today. The telegrapher's work, like that of the modern computer programmer, involved translating written language into machine-readable code. And anticipating the Internet by over one hundred years, telegraphers often experienced the gender-neutral aspect of the "cyberspace" they inhabited."--BOOK JACKET.
Hearings
Author: United States. 60th Congress. 1st session, 1907-1908. House. [from old catalog]
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Visible Women
Author: Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Fifteen leading historians of women and American history explore women's political action from 1830 to the present. While illustrating the scope and racial, ethnic, and class diversity of women's public activism, they also clarify conceptual issues. "Establishes important links between citizenship, race, and gender following the Reconstruction amendments and the Dawes Act of 1887." -- Sharon Hartmann Strom, American Historical Review
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Fifteen leading historians of women and American history explore women's political action from 1830 to the present. While illustrating the scope and racial, ethnic, and class diversity of women's public activism, they also clarify conceptual issues. "Establishes important links between citizenship, race, and gender following the Reconstruction amendments and the Dawes Act of 1887." -- Sharon Hartmann Strom, American Historical Review
Awards ... Third Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board
Author: United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Publisher:
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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