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The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 (Paperback)
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The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 (Paperback)
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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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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