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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