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Victorian Telegraphy Before Nationalization

Simone Fari (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

235 Seiten

2014 | 2015 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-58012-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Contents 1. The Origins Of The Telegraph Service1.1. The Heroic Years1.2. Experiments Along The Railroads 1.2.1. The London & Birmingham Railroad Company1.2.2. The Great Western Railway Company1.2.3. The Electric Telegraph Company1.3. 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 V. The Electric Telegraph2.3. The Pneumatic V. The Electric Telegraph2.4. Gas Tubes And Electric Cables2.5. The Penny Post2.6. Railway And Telegraph 3. From Monopoly To Competition 3.1. The Electric Against All3.2. The British: Litigation And Marketing 3.3. The Magnetic: Low Profile But High Technology3.4. The Submarine And The European: Competition At Sea 3.5. The First Mover Supreme 3.6. The Effects Of The Constitutive Choices 4. The Duopoly4.1. The Turning Point4.2. The Electric's New Majority4.3. The British/Magnetic Merger 4.4. The Consolidation Of The Duopoly 5. The Triumph Of The Oligopoly 5.1. Challenging The Duopoly5.2. The Consolidation Of The Oligopoly5.3. Submarine Telegraphy 6. Nationalization 6.1. Plans And Inquiries6.2. Against Nationalization6.3. The 1868 Telegraph Act6.4. The 1869 Telegraph Act 6.5. The Reasons For Nationalization 6.6. A New Turning Point

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
Schlagworte	Business history • Economic History • History • Technology • telegraph service • Telegraphy • Victorian
ISBN-10	1-349-58012-0 / 1349580120
ISBN-13	978-1-349-58012-5 / 9781349580125
Zustand	Neuware