The Story of Telecommunications

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1 Man's Rebellion against Time and Space
Harnessing the Lightning
The First Telegraphs
Semaphore Systems
The Electric Battery
The Secret of Electromagnetism
Notes
Chapter 2 Morse: Artist and Telegraph Inventor
Vail Invented Morse Instruments and Code
Notes
Chapter 3 Building the First Telegraph Lines (1844-1847)
The First Telegraph News Dispatch
The First Public Telegram
Private Capital Extends the Telegraph
The O'Reilly Contract
The Second Telegraph Line
The Atlantic and Ohio Line
The Third Line
New York and Boston Linked
Notes
Chapter 4 Progress South and West (1845-1851)
Expansion South and Westward
Progress Westward
Hard Lives of Pioneer Builders
The Race to New Orleans
The Western Telegraph Company
Notes
Chapter 5 Fight to Control Midwest (1847-1854)
The Lake Erie Telegraph Company
The Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois Line
The Illinois and Mississippi Line
O'Reilly and Associates
Two More New York-Buffalo Lines
Maine Telegraph Company
Reception By Sound
Train Dispatching by Telegraph
When the Telegraph Came to Texas
The Bain Lines
House and His Printer
Notes
Chapter 6 Birth of Our Telegraph System (1851-1861)
Ezra Cornell
The Western Union Telegraph Company
A Final Word about Henry O'Reilly
The American Telegraph Company
Notes
Chapter 7 Pony Express and Western Lines
Mail to California
The Pony Express
Early California Lines
Planning the Transcontinental Telegraph
Notes
Chapter 8 First Transcontinental Line
The Voice of "The Great Spirit"
Brigham Young Aids
The Atlantic and Pacific Joined
Indian Trouble
Other Western Lines
Notes
Chapter 9 The Telegraph in the Civil War
No War with England
Dangerous Work of the Telegraphers
Telegraph Problems in the South
The Use of Cipher Systems
The Signal Corps in the Civil War
Censorship in the Civil War
After the War
Labor Forms Union
Notes
Chapter 10 The Russian-American Expedition
On To Russia and Europe
Expedition Organized
Work in British Columbia
Kennicott 's Explorations
Work in Alaska
The Westdahl Diary
Work in Siberia
The Wanless Diary
Purchase of Alaska
Tribute of Hiram Sibley
Notes
Chapter 11 The Story of Submarine Cables
The Telegraph in Canada
The Battle for European News
Newfoundland the Next Objective
Cyrus W. Field 's Decision
Forming the Atlantic Cable Company
Notes
Chapter 12 The First Transatlantic Cable
The Cable Fails
A Successful Atlantic Cable Is Laid
The Battle between Press Associations
The French Duxbury Cable
The Florida-Cuba Cable
The Mexican Telegraph Co.
Central and South America
All America Cables, Inc.
The Atlantic Cable Pool
Operating the Early Cables
Cable Enemies
Notes
Chapter 13 The Industry Expands (and Gould Robs It)
Farewell to Morse
Gould Plunders Western Union
Edison - Telegraph Operator, Inventor
Birth of the Stock Ticker
Quadruplex Telegraphy
Dr. Norvin Green
Private Wires
Introduction of the Typewriter
Morse Operators
Old 195 Broadway
Early Labor Troubles
Notes
Chapter 14 The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Did Drawbaugh Invent the Telephone?
Bell's Exhibit
The First Telephone Business
Theodore N. Vail
The Phonograph
The Struggle for Control
AT&T Is Born
Notes
Chapter 15 Prelude to Modern Communications
The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
Commercial Cable Company
Two Decades of Rapid Growth
Government Ownership Agitation
Underground Wires and Tubes
Heroism in Major Disasters
The Galveston Flood
The Baltimore Fire
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
The Dayton Flood
AT&T Violates Contract
The Pacific Cables
The Cable Pool Is Broken
Notes
Chapter 16 AT&T-Western Union Merger-Divorce
The Telegraph Messenger
Western Union vs. Pennsylvania Railroad
The Strike of 1907
AT&T and Western Union "Merge "
Newcomb Carlton
The AT&T-Western Union Divorce
The Miami Incident
The First Transcontinental Telephone
Notes
Chapter 17 Wireless Telegraph, Cables, World War I
World War I
The Radiotelephone
How R.C.A. Was Born
Radio Broadcasting
Radiotelephone and Radiotelegraph
FM Radio
Ciphers and Codes
The British "All Red" Route
Permalloy Cables
The Great Earthquake of 1929
ITT Enters the Battle Royal
Notes
Chapter 18 Early to Modern Operating Progress
Multichannel Automatic
Western Union Multiplex System
World War I Speeds Operations
Carrier Current Systems
Birth of Teletype
Teletypewriter Exchange Service
High-Speed Message-Switching Network
Time Service
Weather Maps and Reports
Stock Quotations
Notes
Chapter 19 Facsimile, World War II, and Disastrous Merger
Facsimile Telegraphy and Television
World War II
New Signal Corps Telegraph System
The Singing Telegram
Government Regulation
Western Union - Postal Telegraph Merger
Notes
Chapter 20 Microwaves, Private Wires, and National Defense
Microwaves versus Coaxial Cables
First Microwave Beam System
The "Marshall Plan"
TWX versus TWS
Radio Beam Nationwide
The TAT Cables
Private Wire Systems
National Defense Networks
Notes
Chapter 21 The Computer World We Live In
The Silicon Chip
Data Networks, Banking, Reservations
The Personal Computer
Great Speed Mainframe Computers
Indispensable Software
Japanese Competition
The Robots Are Coming
Sun Microsystems and Unix
Notes
Chapter 22 Satellite Communications
AT&T Satellites
Congress Creates COMSAT
First American Communications Satellite
Pagers, Cellular Telephones, Cable TV
Satellites and Defense
The Laser and Maser
Satellites Explore the Universe
Satellites Explore the Universe
Notes
Chapter 23 Our Communications World Disrupted
The Wrecking of Western Union
Ma Bell Loses Her Children
MCI Enters the Battle
Largest Antitrust Suit in History: U.S. versus AT&T
The Largest Antitrust Trial
Settlement of the Suit
Results of the Reorganization
Fierce Competition by RHCs and AT&T
Notes
Chapter 24 Divestment Sparks Revolutionary Change
Major Competitors
Changes Confuse Customers
Network for Entire Federal Government
Canadian Telecommunications
Notes
Chapter 25 Living in Our Information Age
Automated World Communications
Major Trends Will Continue
Software Essential
Aid for the Handicapped
Sophisticated Modern Services
Higher Speed, More Wonders
Maser and Laser Beams' Great Future
More Wonders Predicted
Notes
Appendixes and Bibliography
Appendix 1 Making History Live
Appendix 2 Presidents' Gold Telegraph Keys
Bibliography
Manuscripts and Other Collections
Books, Articles, Papers, Speeches
Periodicals, Documents
Index
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