Network nation : inventing American telecommunications / Richard R. John.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
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CCQ - Lusail Female Library
TK5102.3.U6
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CCQ - Lusail Male Library
TK5102.3.U6
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Description
viii, 520 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-500) and index.
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 mediu