The story of telecommunications

Oslin, George P. 1899-1996 (Author).

Summary: Recounting in epic detail the fascinating history of mankind's continuing quest for simpler, faster, and more accurate means of communicating with each other and with the world, this is a story not just of machines, but of dreamers and schemers--a personal chronicle fleshed out and verified by thousands of company documents, newspaper, magazine, and book accounts, and more than 1,000 letters and diaries of telecommunications pioneers. -- Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 0865544182
ISBN: 9780865544185
Physical Description: print
xii, 507 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Publisher: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-485) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ch. 1. Man's Rebellion against Time and Space -- Ch. 2. Morse: Artist and Telegraph Inventor -- Ch. 3. The First Telegraph Lines (1844-1847) -- Ch. 4. Progress South and West (1845-1851) -- Ch. 5. Fight to Control Midwest (1847-1854) -- Ch. 6. Birth of Our Telegraph System (1851-1861) -- Ch. 7. Pony Express and Western Lines -- Ch. 8. First Transcontinental Line -- Ch. 9. The Telegraph in the Civil War -- Ch. 10. Russian-American Expedition Adds Alaska -- Ch. 11. The Story of Submarine Cables -- Ch. 12. The First Transatlantic Cable -- Ch. 13. The Telegraph Expands (1866-1881) -- Ch. 14. The Telephone -- Ch. 15. Prelude to Modern Communications (1881-1909) -- Ch. 16. A.T. & T., Western Union Merger, Divorce -- Ch. 17. Wireless Telegraph, Cables, World War I -- Ch. 18. Early to Modern Operating Progress -- Ch. 19. Facsimile, World War II, and Disastrous Merger -- Ch. 20. Microwaves, Private Wires, National Defense -- Ch. 21. The Computer Would We Live In.