Private telegraphy : the path from private wires to subscriber lines in Victorian Britain
In this thesis, I investigate private telegraphy from its rise in the late 1830s to the advent of exchange telephony in the early 1880s. In contrast to public telegraphy where telegrams were transmitted over a shared network infrastructure, private telegraphy was a direct, more immediate form of use...
Main Author: | Fava-Verde, Jean-Francois |
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Other Authors: | Gooday, Graeme |
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University of Leeds
2016
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702606 |
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