| Author | Hochfelder, David, 1965-
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| Title | The telegraph in America, 1832-1920 / David Hochfelder.
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| Published | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
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| Description | viii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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| Series | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
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| ISBN | 9781421407470 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781421407975 (electronic) |
| ISBN | 1421407477 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1421407973 (electronic) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: "Here the telegraph came forceably into play": the telegraph during the Civil War -- "As a telegraph for the people it is a signal failure": the postal telegraph movement -- "There is a public voracity for telegraphic news": the telegraph, written language, and journalism -- "The ticker is always a treacherous servant": the telegraph and the rise of modern finance capitalism -- "Western Union, by Grace of FCC and A.T.&T.": The telegraph the telephone and the logic of industrial succession.
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| Subjects | Telegraph -- United States -- History.
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| LC Card Number | 2012-12928 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: TK 5123 H685 2012
CA-1400635 c.1: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 148046] |
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