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In the second half of the nineteenth century, British firms and engineers built, laid, and ran a vast global network of submarine telegraph cables. For the first time, cities around the world were put into almost instantaneous contact, with profound effects on commerce, international affairs, and the dissemination of news. Science, too, was strongly affected, as cable telegraphy exposed electrical researchers to important new phenomena while also providing a new and vastly larger market for their expertise. By examining the deep ties that linked the cable industry to work in electrical physics in the nineteenth century - culminating in James Clerk Maxwell's formulation of his theory of the electromagnetic field - Bruce J. Hunt sheds new light both on the history of the Victorian British Empire and on the relationship between science and technology.

Telegraph --- Electromagnetism --- Electromagnetics --- Magnetic induction --- Magnetism --- Metamaterials --- Electric telegraph --- Postal telegraph --- Telegrams --- Ciphers --- Communication and traffic --- Telecommunication --- History --- Research

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The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research with bold reinterpretation, James Schwoch details the unexplored dimensions of the frontier telegraph and its impact.

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In Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha , Helen Godfrey traces the connections between submarine telegraphy and the peoples of Singapore and Sarawak (Borneo) who supplied 'gutta percha', the latex insulating the world network of undersea telegraph cables. The book examines the complex inter-relationships linking metropolitan and local environments in a trade once described as a matter of interest to the whole civilized world. Using previously untapped corporate and official archives, trade data and a rich documentary record, the study explores the roles of cable producers, scientists, administrators, and local Chinese and indigenous traders. It reveals how a global trade may transcend technological, geographic and cross-cultural challenges, even hostilities. Motivations and outcomes are more complex than simple commercial gain.

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This volume investigates the origins and impact of the communications revolution in nineteenth-century Germany, focusing on one of the most transformative technologies of the period - the electric telegraph.

Communication --- Telegraph --- Technology and civilization --- Technology and state --- History --- Germany --- State and technology --- Technology --- Endowment of research --- Science and state --- Civilization and machinery --- Civilization and technology --- Machinery and civilization --- Civilization --- Social history --- Electric telegraph --- Postal telegraph --- Telegrams --- Ciphers --- Communication and traffic --- Telecommunication --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Government policy --- Philosophy --- Germany, nineteenth century, networks, technology, telegraph, modernity, modernization, globalization, nation-building