The story of telecommunications

by Oslin, George P.

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Title Statements

Full title :The story of telecommunications / by George P. Oslin.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999, ©1992.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mercer University Press
Place of Publication:Macon, Ga
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999, ©1992.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 507 pages : : illustrations)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1245823336
LC Classification:HE7631
Dewey Decimal:384

Ch. 1. Man's Rebellion against Time and Space -- Ch. 2. Morse: Artist and Telegraph Inventor -- Ch. 3. The First Telegraph Lines (1844-1847) -- Ch. 4. Progress South and West (1845-1851) -- Ch. 5. Fight to Control Midwest (1847-1854) -- Ch. 6. Birth of Our Telegraph System (1851-1861) -- Ch. 7. Pony Express and Western Lines -- Ch. 8. First Transcontinental Line -- Ch. 9. The Telegraph in the Civil War -- Ch. 10. Russian-American Expedition Adds Alaska -- Ch. 11. The Story of Submarine Cables -- Ch. 12. The First Transatlantic Cable -- Ch. 13. The Telegraph Expands (1866-1881) -- Ch. 14. The Telephone -- Ch. 15. Prelude to Modern Communications (1881-1909) -- Ch. 16. A.T. & T., Western Union Merger, Divorce -- Ch. 17. Wireless Telegraph, Cables, World War I -- Ch. 18. Early to Modern Operating Progress -- Ch. 19. Facsimile, World War II, and Disastrous Merger -- Ch. 20. Microwaves, Private Wires, National Defense -- Ch. 21. The Computer Would We Live In.

Ch. 22. Satellite Communications -- Ch. 23. Our Communications World Disrupted -- Ch. 24. Divestment Sparks Revolutionary Change -- Ch. 25. Living in Our information Age.

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History Overseas item Telecommunication Telecommunication -- History Telecommunication -- History. -- United… Telecommunications Télécommunications -- Histoire Télécommunications -- Histoire. -- État… United States