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The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920

By David Hochfelder

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Hardcover:

9781421407470 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 20, 2012, cover price $55.00

A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable

Product Description: Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the United States isolated and vulnerable...read more

By John Steele Gordon

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Paperback:

9780060524463 | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 2003), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Describes the laying of a cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866, exploring the physical, financial, and technological challenges of the project and assessing the impact of the cable on the course of twentieth-century history.

Prebinding:

9781439568675 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable.

The Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States

Discusses Morse's invention and its impact on communication, details the creation of the first transcontinental telegraph line, explores its effect on the Civil War, and looks at advances in telegraph technology.

By Lewis Coe

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Hardcover:

9780899507361 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 1, 1993, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780786418084, titled "Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States" | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Discusses Morse's invention and its impact on communication, details the creation of the first transcontinental telegraph line, explores its effect on the Civil War, and looks at advances in telegraph technology.

A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Trans Atlantic Cable

A close-up look at one of the greatest engineering feats of all time describes the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866, exploring the remarkable physical, financial, and technological challenges of the project and assessing the impact of the cable on the course of twentieth-century history.

By John Steele Gordon

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Hardcover:

9780802713643 | Walker & Co, May 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Describes the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866, exploring the physical, financial, and technological challenges of the project and assessing the impact of the cable on the course of twentieth-century history.

From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830-1920

By Paul B. Israel

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Hardcover:

9780801843792 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $45.00

Continental Dash: The Russian-American Telegraph

Product Description: In the 1860s, Americans, Russians and Canadians struggled with starvation, rugged terrain and sub-Arctic winters to connect the continents by telegraphthe world's largest building project at that time. The hundreds of miles of telegraph line built in Canada operated for 113 years...read more

By Rosemary Neering

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9780920663073 | Touchwood Ed, June 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In the 1860s, Americans, Russians and Canadians struggled with starvation, rugged terrain and sub-Arctic winters to connect the continents by telegraphthe world's largest building project at that time.

Paperback:

9780920663080 | Touchwood Ed, October 1, 1990, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In the 1860s, Americans, Russians and Canadians struggled with starvation, rugged terrain and sub-Arctic winters to connect the continents by telegraphthe world's largest building project at that time.

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