This chapter surveys the history of telecommunications from a global perspective and
highlights three influential interpretative traditions. It has two parts. The first part defines …

The first comprehensive history of the Information Age... how we got there and where we are
going The exchange of information is essential for both the organization of nature and the …

Dot-Dash to Dot.Com: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the
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Although the history of US Telecommunications began in the first half of the 19th century
with the invention of the telegraph, the modern era started in 1876 with Alexander Graham …

Contemporary discussions of new media, information services and convergence proceed as
if these are entirely new phenomena. In fact, as this paper shows, a similar pattern of events …

This special issue aims to start a new phase in the historiography of the telephone. This
medium has been approached narrowly both by scholars in media studies and technology …

Shaping American Telecommunications examines the technical, regulatory, and economic
forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This …

This book is a history of the formative era of the first electrical communications media in the
United States. It considers how they worked and why they mattered. Its theme is the …

I in 1835). In Russia, Czar Nicholas I opened visual telegraph lines between Warsaw and
Moscow/Petrograd in 1838. Errors arose due to bad sighting conditions, and on the Paris …

The article is an extensive review of the literature covering the history of
telecommunications, primarily the telephone and telegraph. Much of the history itself is …