Telegraph Messenger Boys

Labor, Communication and Technology, 1850-1950

Gregory J. Downey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2002
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-93109-0 (ISBN)

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The telegraph system is a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. Telegraph Messenger Boys examines human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about.

In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beyond the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about.

Gregory J. Downey

Acknowledgements 1. Why Telegraph Messenger Boys? 2. Western Union and the Inner-City Messengers 3. American District Telegraph and the Intra-City Messengers 4. The Spaces of Messenger Discipline 5. The Message and the Messenger 6. The Limits of Gender, Class and Age 7. The First Information Internetwork 8. They Myths of Education 9. From Union Joke to Union Man 10. The Telegram is Dead; Long Live the Messenger

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.6.2002
Zusatzinfo	30 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	424 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
ISBN-10	0-415-93109-6 / 0415931096
ISBN-13	978-0-415-93109-0 / 9780415931090
Zustand	Neuware