By David Hochfelder
Telegraphy within the 19th century approximated the net in our personal day. Historian and electric engineer David Hochfelder bargains readers a accomplished background of this groundbreaking know-how, which employs breaks in an electric present to ship code alongside miles of twine. The Telegraph in the US, 1832–1920, examines the correlation among technological innovation and social switch and exhibits how this transformative courting is helping us to appreciate and maybe outline modernity.
The telegraph revolutionized the unfold of information—speeding own messages, information of public occasions, and information of inventory fluctuations. in the course of the Civil battle, telegraphed intelligence and high-level directives gave the Union struggle attempt a severe virtue. in a while, the telegraph helped construct and holiday fortunes and, in addition to the railroad, altered the way in which americans considered time and house. Hochfelder therefore offers us with an advent to the early stirrings of the data age.
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