The train and the telegraph : a revisionist history / Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes

Englisch

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press [2019], 2019

xix, 199 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Delaware

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4214-2974-8 hardcover

1-4214-2974-8 hardcover

*978-1-421-42975-5 - ISBN *1-421-42975-6

*USA / Infrastruktur / Ausbau / Eisenbahn / Telegraf / Geschichte

*Railroad trains -- United States -- Dispatching -- History -- 19th century ; Telegraph -- United States -- History -- 19th century

*Railroad trains ; Dispatching ; Telegraph ; United States ; History

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: TF563

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 384.10973/09034

Rights-of-way -- Dangerous expedient -- At war with time and space -- The American system -- The struggle for standards -- Telegraphers and regulators.

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