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Author John, Richard R., 1959-

Title Network nation [electronic resource] : inventing American telecommunications / Richard R. John.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description viii, 520 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-500) and index.
Contents Making a neighborhood of a nation -- Professor Morse's lightning -- Antimonopoly -- The new postalic dispensation -- Rich man's mail -- The talking telegraph -- Telephomania -- Second nature -- Gray wolves -- Universal service -- One great medium?.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Telecommunication -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674024298 (alk. paper)
067402429X (alk. paper)
9780674056527 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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