Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications 9780674056527
Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and d
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Table of contents :
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
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
- Author / Uploaded
- Richard R. John
