Victorian Telegraphy Before Nationalization [electronic resource] /
Fari, Simone.author.
This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869. It shows a historical reconstruction mainly based on original and unedited documents belonging to a variety of archives.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; Half-Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements                       ; Introduction                   ; 1 The Origins of the Telegraph Service                                             ; 1.1 The heroic years                           ; 1.2 Experiments along the railroads                                          ; 1.2.1 The London & Birmingham Railroad Company                                                     ; 1.2.2 The Great Western Railway Company
1.2.3 The London & Blackwall Railway Company                                                   1.2.4 The Electric Telegraph Company                                           ; 1.3 The dynamics of the Electric                                       ; 1.3.1 Ties with the past                               ; 1.3.2 The venture                        ; 2 Constitutive Choices                             ; 2.1 "Ne tentes aut perfice"                                  ; 2.2 The optic vs the electric telegraph
2.3 The pneumatic vs the electric telegraph                                                  2.4 Gas tubes and electric cables                                        ; 2.5 The cumbersome presence of the Penny Post                                                    ; 2.6 The symbiosis between railway and telegraph                                                      ; 2.7 Conclusion                     ; 3 From Monopoly to Free Competition                                          ; 3.1 The Electric against all
3.2 The British: litigation and marketing                                                3.3 The Magnetic: low profile but high technology                                                        ; 3.4 The Submarine and the European: competition at sea                                                             ; 3.5 The first mover supreme                                  ; 3.6 The consequences of the constitutive choices                                                       ; 4 The Duopoly                    ; 4.1 The turning point
4.2 The Electric's new majority                                      4.3 The British/Magnetic merger                                      ; 4.4 The consolidation of the duopoly                                           ; 5 The Triumph of the Oligopoly                                     ; 5.1 Challenging the duopoly                                  ; 5.2 The consolidation of the oligopoly                                             ; 5.3 Submarine telegraphy                               ; 5.4 Turning points and constitutive choices
6 Nationalization
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869. It shows a historical reconstruction mainly based on original and unedited documents belonging to a variety of archives.
History.
Computer organization.
Industries.
History, Modern.
Organization.
Planning.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Science.
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.
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Organization.