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Author | : Charles H. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Diaries |
ISBN | : 9780933307322 |
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Charles H. Brown became Edward Creighton's assistant in 1861, working on the transcontinental telegraph line. His diary begins on June 18, 1861, the first entry describing Brown's departure from Fort Kearny, Nebraska. The final entry is dated August 9, 1861--
Author | : Robert Luther Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Telegraph |
ISBN | : |
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"Much of the inside story of American industry building its first great monopoly and its largest corporation is to be found in the unpublished papers of the key men in the development of the telegraph industry. This wealth of source material is here made the basis of a history of the telegraph in the United States during its first thirty years--from the time when a portrait painter built his canvas stretcher into a crude invention called the "magic wire" to the time when Western Union's great wave of consolidation swept over the last of the independent telegraph companies. The book is primarily an economic history which traces, behind the breathless race of uncoiling wire, the strategy of ledger and lawsuit that carried the American telegraph industry in two decades from a total capitalization of a few thousand dollars to one of more than $40,000,000. It follows the trend toward monopoly from Amos Kendall's original plan for organization of Morse patentees, through Henry O'Rielly's dream of a democratic council, to Hiram Sibley's famous Six Party Contract, and analyzes the delicate negotiations by which the "irrepressible conflict" between Western Union and the American Telegraph Company was resolved. Because the book's emphasis is economic, it has implications beyond the history of a specific industry. It reveals the general pattern of all industry in the United States in the nineteenth century and gives fresh insight into the whole problem of private versus government enterprise."--Dust jacket.
Author | : William Howard Sir Russell |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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'The Atlantic Telegraph' is a book by American journalist William Howard Russell. It focuses on discussing the developments of the transatlantic telegraph cable, which were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. The book revolves around the events in 1865, when a second cable was placed in. The author of the book was embedded with the crew who were tasked to do the duty—giving us a firsthand account of an ambitious endeavor that remains relevant to current times.
Author | : William J. Phalen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 078649445X |
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Invented in the 1830's, the telegraph soon became indispensable. By 1851 there were more than 50 companies providing telegraphic service in the United States alone. The telegraph played a pivotal role in warfare beginning with the American Civil War, featured prominently in the creation of the first large American corporation, Western Union, and made possible long distance communication with the laying of the transatlantic cable. This book describes the global impact of the telegraph from its advent to its eventual eclipse by the telephone four decades later.
Author | : James D. Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Here is an often cited panoramic history of the telegraph which discusses the principal telegraph firms and the key persons within them. Throughout his work, Reid stresses the business and economic aspects of marketing this remarkable scientific invention. The importance of The Telegraph in America as a classic reference in the field is under-scored by the fact that the author was active in telegraphy throughout the period he discusses. He thus had a personal knowledge of persons and events under examination.
Author | : John Watkins Brett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Telegraph |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Martyn Field |
Publisher | : New York : C. Scribner |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Cables, Submarine |
ISBN | : |
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This book records the laying of the undersea cable across the Atlantic for telegraph communications from Europe to the United States, which was completed in 1858.
Author | : Mary Morton Cowan |
Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1684371422 |
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A NSTA Best STEM Book Explore the extraordinary achievement of Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century: laying a transatlantic telegraph cable to create instant communication between two continents. Cyrus Field had a big dream to connect North America and the United Kingdom with a telegraph line, which would enable instant communication. In the mid-1800s, no one knew if it was possible. That didn't dissuade Cyrus, who set out to learn about undersea cables and built a network of influential people to raise money and create interest in his project. Cyrus experienced numerous setbacks: many years of delays and failed attempts, millions of dollars lost, suspected sabotage, technological problems, and more. But Cyrus did not give up and forged ahead, ultimately realizing his dream in the summer of 1866. Mary Morton Cowan brilliantly captures Cyrus's life and his steadfast determination to achieve his dream.
Author | : Derek Pugh |
Publisher | : Derek Pugh |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2024-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0645737429 |
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The greatest engineering problem facing Australia - the tyranny of distance - had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the sheep-farming colony of South Australia. In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the centre of the continent from Port Augusta to Darwin. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long and using 36,000 poles at '20 to the mile', it was a mammoth undertaking but in October 1872, Adelaide was finally linked to London. The Overland Telegraph Line crossed Aboriginal lands first seen by John McDouall Stuart just 10 years before. Messages which previously took weeks to cross the country now took hours. Passing through eleven new repeater stations and the remotest parts of Australia, the line joined the vast global telegraph network, and a new era was ushered in. Each station held a staff of six. They became centres of white civilization and the cattle or sheep industry and, in many places, the Aborigines were displaced. The unique stories of how men and women lived and/or died on the line range from heroic through desperate to tragic, but they remain an indelible part of Australia's history. '...a book written with heart and determination ... a lasting tribute to the inventiveness and tenacity of the people behind the planning, building and execution of the Overland Telegraph - a true nation building endeavour.' - His Excellency, The Honourable Hieu Van Le, AC.
Author | : Cyrus West FIELD |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Cables, Submarine |
ISBN | : |
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