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| Author | : Lucy Margaret Rozier |
| Publisher | : Schwartz & Wade |
| Total Pages | : 41 |
| Release | : 2015-09-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385378432 |
The fastest man in the West meets his match in this deliciously clever original tall tale. With his extra-long legs, Jackrabbit McCabe can outrun anything on the American frontier: horses, trains, and even twisters. So of course, everyone in the town of Windy Flats always counts on his speed when a message has to get out fast. Then something new comes to town: the telegraph, which can send Morse code messages with the speed of electricity. At first, no one believes the newfangled contraption can deliver a message quicker than Jackrabbit. . . . But in a race between man and machine, who will be left in the dust? An author's note includes information about the invention of the telegraph, a Morse code key, and a riddle written in Morse code for kids to transcribe. "A strikingly accomplished debut.... A terrific tall tale about the costs and opportunities of technology." —Publishers Weekly, Starred "Good, quick-moving fun. Kids may marvel that communication existed before the telephone and Internet." —Kirkus Reviews
| Author | : Geoffrey Hubbard |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1135028494 |
Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was founded, and the curious route by which it came to England. It discusses the way in which two such antagonistic men were driven into collaboration and sets out the history of the early telegraph lines, including work on the London and Birmingham Railway and the Great Western Railway.
| Author | : James D. Reid |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 920 |
| Release | : 1879 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
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 | : Tracy Nelson Maurer |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 23 |
| Release | : 2019-06-25 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1250618398 |
Writer Tracy Nelson Maurer and illustrator El Primo Ramón present a lively picture book biography of Samuel Morse that highlights how he revolutionized modern technology. Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that’s who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions—only if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication forever? Samuel Morse, that’s who! This dynamic and substantive biography celebrates an early technology pioneer.
| Author | : Alexander Graham Bell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 1876 |
| Genre | : Telegraph |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : David Hochfelder |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2013-01-01 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1421407973 |
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.
| Author | : Beverley Frances Ronalds |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 604 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781783269174 |
Introduction -- Founded on cheese -- Scenes in the story -- Frank and his family -- A life of science -- Electrical science and engineering 1810-19 -- Who invented the electric telegraph? -- The grand tour -- A sulphur business opportunity? -- Perspective tracing instruments -- Dr Alexander Blair and the Carnac megaliths -- Science exhibitions: a glimpse into Ronalds' mechanical inventions 1824-41 -- Kew Observatory 1842-55 and beyond -- Atmospheric electricity and meteorology: instruments and observations -- Photographic recording instruments for meteorology and geomagnetism -- Last years and legacy.
| Author | : Bill Kovarik |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2015-11-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1628924780 |
Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. Updated to reflect new research that has surfaced these past few years, Revolutions in Communication continues to provide students and teachers with the most readable history of communications, while including enough international perspective to get the most accurate sense of the field. The supplemental reading materials on the companion website include slideshows, podcasts and video demonstration plans in order to facilitate further reading.
| Author | : Andrew Wheen |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2010-11-04 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1441967605 |
Telecommunications is a major global industry, and this unique book chronicles the development of this complex technology from the electric telegraph to the Internet in a simple, accessible, and entertaining way. The book opens with the early years of the electric telegraph. The reader will learn how the Morse telegraph evolved into an international network that spanned the globe, starting with the development of international undersea cables, and the heroic attempts to lay a trans-Atlantic cable. The book describes the events that led to the invention of the telephone, and the subsequent disputes over who had really invented it. It takes a look at some of the most important applications that have appeared on the Internet, the mobile revolution, and ends with a discussion of future key developments in the telecommunications industry.
| Author | : Linda Simon |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780156032445 |
From the invention of the telegraph to the discovery of X rays, Simon has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age when Americans welcomed electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes.
