Network nation inventing American telecommunications /

John, Richard R., 1959-

Network nation inventing American telecommunications / [electronic resource] : Richard R. John. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - viii, 520 p. : ill., map.

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?.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780674056527 (electronic bk.)




Telecommunication--History.--United States


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