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Network nation : inventing American telecommunications / Richard R. John.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.Description: viii, 520 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674024298 :
  • 067402429X :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TK5102.3.U6 J64 2010
Contents:
Making a neighborhood of a nation -- Professor Morse's lightning -- Antimonopoly -- The new postalic dispensation -- Rich man's mail -- The talking telegraph -- Telephomania -- Second nature -- Gray wolves -- Universal service -- One great medium?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-500) and index.

Making a neighborhood of a nation -- Professor Morse's lightning -- Antimonopoly -- The new postalic dispensation -- Rich man's mail -- The talking telegraph -- Telephomania -- Second nature -- Gray wolves -- Universal service -- One great medium?

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