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The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was de...
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John, Richard R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Network Nation : Inventing American Telecommunications / Richard R. John. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010] ©2010 1 online resource (528 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Introduction: Inventing American Telecommunications -- 1. Making a Neighborhood of a Nation -- 2. Professor Morse’s Lightning -- 3. Antimonopoly -- 4. The New Postalic Dispensation -- 5. Rich Man’s Mail -- 6. The Talking Telegraph -- 7. Telephomania -- 8. Second Nature -- 9. Gray Wolves -- 10. Universal Ser vice -- 11. One Great Medium? -- Epilogue: The Technical Millennium -- Chronology of American Telecommunications -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a progressive political economy that idealized public utility and disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasn’t until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in 1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Telecommunication United States History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674024298 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674056527 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674056527 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674056527/original |
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