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The Railroad The Telegraph And Other Technologies
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Author : Xina M. Uhl
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2017-12-15
The Railroad The Telegraph And Other Technologies written by Xina M. Uhl and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
From 1800 to 1900 the territory of the United States expanded fourfold, and the population skyrocketed from about five million to seventy-five million plus. Two key innovations in technology helped this rapid development take place: steam and electricity. This easy-to-read guide traces the rail system's impact on shipping, travel, and the taming of the western frontier. Also covered are unprecedented advances in communication and other technology, such as new steel processes and improved farming tools. These changes not only ushered forth a new era of American progress but also formed the foundation of the modern world.
The Railroad The Telegraph And Other Technologies
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Author : Xina M. Uhl
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2017-12-15
The Railroad The Telegraph And Other Technologies written by Xina M. Uhl and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
From 1800 to 1900 the territory of the United States expanded fourfold, and the population skyrocketed from about five million to seventy-five million plus. Two key innovations in technology helped this rapid development take place: steam and electricity. This easy-to-read guide traces the rail system's impact on shipping, travel, and the taming of the western frontier. Also covered are unprecedented advances in communication and other technology, such as new steel processes and improved farming tools. These changes not only ushered forth a new era of American progress but also formed the foundation of the modern world.
Fallible Guardian
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Author : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
language : en
Publisher: ProQuest
Release Date : 2009
Fallible Guardian written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and has been published by ProQuest this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Railroad travel categories.
This dissertation argues that a deterministic popular rhetoric of 19 th -century mechanical and electrical sublimity has obscured the complex and nuanced social, financial, and technological relationships that developed between users of railroad and telegraph technologies. In order to successfully analyze the agents that shaped the development of both industries in the United States, it is necessary to recognize that these technologies were socially constructed and evolved as parts of larger technological systems that encompassed social, economic, and technological components. By examining how these components interacted and shaped the development of the railroad and telegraph industries, this dissertation situates both technologies within the broader framework of American industrial growth and expansion in the 19 th century. It demonstrates that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation, rather than systematic, linear development dominated the process by which railroad officials and telegraph promoters established working social, financial, and technological partnerships. When Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrated the first telegraph line in 1844, American railroad officials did not immediately perceive telegraphy as a useful tool for managing railroad operations, such as monitoring train locations, communicating with station agents and train crews, issuing operating instructions, and preventing collisions. Nor did American telegraph entrepreneurs understand how to successfully promote their new technology to railroad managers in the antebellum era. Only through a lengthy process of trial and error did users of both technologies gradually establish financial and technological ties. The first three chapters of the dissertation examine the role of social, technological, and economic agents in shaping partnerships between railroad officials and telegraph promoters in antebellum America. The fourth chapter examines how the development and growth of the United States Military Railroad and Telegraph Corps during the American Civil War revealed the underlying tensions between pro-telegraph and anti-telegraph railroad officials and led to compromises between military railroad and telegraph officials on how telegraph technologies would be used for railroad operational management during the conflict. The fifth and sixth chapters address how rapidly expanding railroad traffic in the postwar era forced civilian railroad officials to adopt telegraphic train dispatching technologies in a largely ad hoc manner. The rapid process of adoption led to inconsistent management practices and technological standards and increased the risk of deadly train collisions. These problems were only resolved at the end of the century through a slow standards-setting process directed by railroad officials from numerous companies. By the end of the 19 th century, railroad and telegraph officials established working technological and financial partnerships, but railroad managers never embraced telegraphic management practices. The rapid transition away from telegraphic train dispatching discussed in the final chapter highlights the lingering tensions between both industries in the early 20 th century and demonstrates that railroad officials remained concerned that telegraph technology could undermine strict managerial protocols and introduce unacceptable risks to railroad operations. These conclusions strike at the heart of the deterministic rhetoric of technological sublimity and show that neither technology possessed a natural affinity for the other, nor were they inherently linked as technological partners in American industrial development.
The Train And The Telegraph
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Author : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2019-08-06
The Train And The Telegraph written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
The Telegraph In America 1832 1920
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Author : David Hochfelder
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
The Telegraph In America 1832 1920 written by David Hochfelder and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. 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.
History Of Telegraphy
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Author : K. G. Beauchamp
language : en
Publisher: IET
Release Date : 2001
History Of Telegraphy written by K. G. Beauchamp and has been published by IET this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Beauchamp (1923-99, retired from the U. of Lancaster, UK) devotes the first half of the book to terrestrial telegraphy, from the beginnings of communication with mechanical signaling to the electrical system using Morse code, including a large chapter on the laying of submarine cables across the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. The second half, on aerial telegraphy, discusses its beginnings with Marconi and its use on board ships and aircraft in both world wars. Dozens of maps show routes of telegraph cable and figures depict old telegraph equipment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Samuel Morse Invented The Telegraph U S Economy In The Mid 1800s Grade 5 Children S Computers Technology Books
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Author : Tech Tron
language : en
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2020-12-31
Samuel Morse Invented The Telegraph U S Economy In The Mid 1800s Grade 5 Children S Computers Technology Books written by Tech Tron and has been published by Speedy Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-31 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describe the invention of Samuel Morse in this book for fifth graders. How did the telegraph help lead the economic growth in the Northeast states? What pushed Morse to create this invention and how was it received in the mid-1800s? Read about the history of the invention and the inventor, too. Grab a copy of this book today.
The Rail And The Electric Telegraph
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Author : Peter Progress
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-27
The Rail And The Electric Telegraph written by Peter Progress and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-27 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Excerpt from The Rail, and the Electric Telegraph: Comprising a Brief History of Former Modes of Travelling and Telegraphic Communication; With an Account of the Electric Clock, Etc;; With Illustrative Anecdotes and Engravings The present age is so emphatically one of Railroads, and the public are so deeply interested in railway progression, that no greater or more moving social or commercial question can be well imagined to exist. The publishers, therefore, believe, they are performing an acceptable service in furnishing the general reader with an interesting account of the Rise, Progress, Use and Advantages of "The Rail," divested of all scientific verbiage, and rendered interesting and perfectly intelligible to all. The treatise on the "Electric Telegraph," comprises an account of the signals and arrangements at present adopted on all the principal lines; and it has been edited by men, whose eminence, both literary and professional, will be a sure guarantee for the excellence and correctness of its information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Telegraph
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Author : Annteresa Lubrano
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-21
The Telegraph written by Annteresa Lubrano and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Business & Economics categories.
First published in 1997. Information processing is crucial to social life and an important element of control. Innovations in information processing have the potential to dramatically alter social relations. Understanding the process of technology innovation and diffusion as well as the economic, social, political and cultural impact of a diffusing/diffused technology is crucial to understanding society as technology is often the impetus for social change. This book addresses both the process and impact of technology innovation as it relates to communication technology.
Curiosities Of Communication
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language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-11-12
Curiosities Of Communication written by and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-12 with History categories.
Excerpt from Curiosities of Communication: The Road; The Railway; The Electric Telegraph; The Sail and the Steamer; Ocean Steamers; Foreign Mails We are arrived at the next phase of our travelling progress, - the introduction of erase-corneas, towards the end of the seventeenth century. But before we proceed to this subject, let us say a few words upon the roads of that time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
