Nineteenth-Century Communications
A Documentary History, 1780-1918: Volume II: Invention, Innovation, Transformation
Herausgeber: Kirkby, Nicola; Hopkins, Eleanor; Koehler, Karin
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A Documentary History, 1780-1918: Volume II: Invention, Innovation, Transformation
Herausgeber: Kirkby, Nicola; Hopkins, Eleanor; Koehler, Karin
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This volume foregrounds the close, and mutually informing, relationships between mediated communication and technological innovation during the nineteenth century. It draws attention to the fact that communication was a driver of innovation, but also considers how communication practices adapted to new media and technologies.
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This volume foregrounds the close, and mutually informing, relationships between mediated communication and technological innovation during the nineteenth century. It draws attention to the fact that communication was a driver of innovation, but also considers how communication practices adapted to new media and technologies.
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- Englisch
- Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 34mm
- Gewicht: 998g
- ISBN-13: 9780367477073
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- Artikelnr.: 75386115
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Karin Koehler is a Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Bangor University. Her research explores the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and connective infrastructure, focusing on Anglophone and Welsh-language material. Nicola Kirkby held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Royal Holloway, London (2019-2023), investigating nineteenth-century infrastructure and literary culture. Her works include Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). Kathleen McIlvenna is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Derby. Her research focuses on histories of work, health and retirement in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Ellen Smith is a historian and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol. Her work explores communication cultures in colonial South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Harriet M. Thompson is Visiting Research Fellow in nineteenth-century literature and culture in the Department of English, King's College London. Her research explores the relationship between communications technologies and print culture. Eleanor Hopkins is a Senior Policy Adviser in Higher Education & Research at the British Academy. She provides strategic oversight of the Academy's Research & Development (R&D), innovation and skills policy.
Volume 2: Invention
Innovation
Transformation General Introduction Volume 2 Introduction Part 1: Conveying Information: Semaphores
Rails
and Steam Packets 1. Charles Dibdin
'The Telegraph'
The Songs of Charles Dibdin
chronologically arranged
with notes
historical
biographical
and critical... (London: How & Parsons
1842)
pp. 151-152. 2. 'Telegraphic Signals by Day and Night'
The Kaleidoscope
8: 386 (1827)
p. 161; 8: 388 (1827)
pp. 178-179. 3. 'The Telegraph'
The Tourist; or
Sketch Book of the Times
1: 6 ( 1832)
pp. 41-42. 4. Telegraphic Despatch'
Illustrated London News
16 July 1842
pp. 148-149. [Credit for Illustrations: From the British Library Collection: MFM.MLD47] 5. Frederick William Faber
'The Old French Telegraphs'
in Poems
3rd edn (London: Thomas Richardson and Son
1857)
pp. 489-490. 6. 'Semaphore Signals'
Young Folk's Paper
34: 952 (1889)
p. 11 7. Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee
Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (London: William H Allen and Co
1841)
pp. 86-7. 8. Anon
'The Travelling Post-Office'
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature
Science and Arts
394 (1861)
pp. 44-47. 9. William Delafield Arnold
'The Night Mail Train in India'
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
54: 324 (1856)
pp. 680-684. 10. John Hollingshead
'Right Through the Post'
All the Year Round
1 (1859)
pp. 190-92. 11. Talbot Thynne
'The Mail-Bag Apparatus Competition'
St-Martin's-le-Grand: The Post Office Magazine
3 (April 1891)
pp. 165-170. 12. 'A Travelling Post-Office'
in Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage (London: Jubilee Celebration Committee
1891)
p. 17. 13. Anon.
'Foreign and Colonial Mail-Packet Service'
Hampshire Advertiser
5 July 1851
p. 4. 14. John Capper
'A Mail-Packet Town'
Household Words 10 (1855)
pp. 501-504. 15. Anon.
'Ocean Mails'
The Graphic
16 September 1876
pp. 282-283. 16. Frederick Ebenezer Baines
extracts from 'The Port of Liverpool'
in On the Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son
1895)
pp. 180-181
185-193 Part 2: Making the Electric Telegraphs 17. Francis Ronalds
extracts from Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph
and of Some Other Electric Apparatus (London: R. Hunter
1823)
pp. 1-24. 18. G.W.K.
'Dr. Davy and the Electric Telegraph'
Argus
28 November 1883
p. 4. 19. Samuel Morse
letter to F.O.J Smith
15 February 1838
in Samuel Irenaeus Prime
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: D. Appleton and Company)
pp. 338-340. 20. William Fothergill Cooke
extract from The Electric Telegraph: Was it invented by Professor Wheatstone (London: W.H. Smith
1857)
pp. 3-9. 21. Charles Wheatstone
extract from A Reply to Mr. Cooke's pamphlet: "The Electric Telegraph; was it invented by Professor Wheatstone?" (London: Richard Taylor and William Francis
1855)
pp. 3-10 22. William Fothergill Cooke
Telegraphic Railways; or
the Single Way (London: Simpkin
Marshall
& Co
1842)
pp. 1-14
16-34 23. 'The Romance of the Electric Telegraph'
New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
8: 355 (1850)
pp. 296-307. 24. Anon.
'The Electric Telegraph'
Chambers's Papers for the People
9 (1851)
p. 32 Journal of the Society of Arts
15 (1867)
pp. 222-232 26. Extract from 'The Government and the Telegraphs'
Examiner
18 April 1868)
pp. 242-243 27. Extract from 'Telegraphs Under Government.'
All the Year Round
20:477 (1868)
pp. 38-39 28. 'Pneumatic Despatch Tubes in Connection with Postal Telegraphy'
The Morning Post
30 January 1871
p. 6. 29. 'Postal Telegraph Pneumatic Tubes'
The Birmingham Daily Post
29 October 1873
p. 8 Part 3: Transforming Communication: Space
Time
Signals
and Sounds 30. Extracts from The Handbook of Communication by Telegraph
Describing the Various Methods
Either by Flags Or Other Semaphores
and the Machines in Use
Etc. (London: Henry Kent Causton
1842)
pp. 19-25. 31. 'Morse's Telegraphy'
The Leisure hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation
683 (1865)
pp. 55-58 32. George Parsons Lathrop
'The Singing Wire'
in Dreams and Days: Poems (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
1892)
pp. 30-32. 33. Anon.
'The Dangers of Sound-Reading'
The Telegraphist
2:17 (1885)
p. 56. 34. Karl von Schlözer
'The Romance of a Telegraph Wire'
Strand Magazine
3 (1892)
pp. 202-205. 35. Henry James
In the Cage (London: Duckworth
1898)
pp. 2-5
10-33
74-80. Part 4: Submarine Telegraphy 36. 'The Submarine Telegraph'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
70: 433 (1851)
pp. 562
567-572. 37. J. C. Maxwell
letter to Lewis Campbell containing 'The Song of the Atlantic Telegraph Company' (1857)
in Lewis Campbell
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (London: Macmillan
1882)
pp. 278-280. 38. Anon.
'The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition'
Times
11 Aug. 1858
p. 4. 39. Laying the Atlantic Cable: Paying out the Land End of the Cable from the Stern of the 'Niagara'
Illustrated London News
22 August 1857
p. 12. Credit: Image reproduced with kind permission of Illustrated London News Ltc/Mary Evans.4 40. William Cullen Bryant
'The Electric Telegraph
Speech at a Dinner Given to Samuel Breese Morse'
1868
in Orations and Addresses (New York
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1873)
pp. 325-330. 41. Anon.
'At the Bottom of the Sea'
The Child's Companion
and Juvenile Instructor
116 (1878)
pp. 120-121. 42. Isabella Whiteford Rogerson
'The Atlantic Telegraph'
in Poems (Belfast: W M'Coomb
1860)
p. 221-222. 43. Charles Tennyson Turner
'The Telegraph Cable to India. Anticipative'
in Sonnets (London; Cambridge: Macmillan
1864)
p. 50. 44. Rudyard Kipling
'The Deep-Sea Cables'
in The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling
Vol 11: Verses
1889-1896 (New York: C. Scribner and Sons
1897). Part 5 Wireless Telegraphy 45. Silvanus P. Thompson
'Telegraphy Across Space'
Journal of the Society of Arts. 46:2367 (April 1
1898)
pp. 453-460 46. Richard Kerr
extract from Wireless Telegraphy: Popularly Explained (London: Sheeley
1898)
pp. 93-99. 47. Rudyard Kipling
'Wireless'
in Traffics and Discoveries (London: Macmillan
1904)
pp. 213-227. 48. H.C. Fyfe
'Wireless Wonders of the Future'
Review of Reviews
25: 147 (1902)
pp. 143-44. 49. Anon.
'Wireless Telegraphy and Journalism'
The Speaker: Liberal Review
18 (1898)
pp. 140-1. 50. Anon.
'Wireless "Wires" as News Carriers: An Important Journalistic Enterprise'
Westminster Gazette
15 June 1901
p. 7. Part 6 Telephony 51. Alexander Graham Bell
'The Telephone'
Musical Standard
13: 697 (1877)
pp. 358-359
13: 698 (1877) pp. 375-376
and 13: 699 (1877)
pp. 390-92. 52. Anon.
extracts from 'The Telephone'
Westminster Review
53 (1878)
pp. 208-221. 53. Thomas Anstey Guthrie
'Telephonic Theatre-Goers'
in The Man from Blankley
and other Sketches [reprinted from Punch] (London: Longman's
Green
and Co
1893)
pp. 128-133. 54. Thomas Anstey Guthrie
'Telephonic Theatre-Goers'
Punch
or the London Charivari
102 (1892)
p. 208. [Credit: From National Library Scotland X.231-233 SER] 55. Anon.
'Church by Telephone'
The Speaker
4 October 1890
pp. 370-371. 56. F. E. Baines
'A Future for the Glebe'
in On The Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son
1895)
pp. 325-339. 57. Anon
'The Telephone'
Chambers's Journal
2:72 (1899)
pp. 310-313. Part 7: Communication
Environment
and Ecology 58. 'The Earthquake Explained'
Punch
23 (1852)
p. 237. 59. Anon.
'Land Telegraph Lines'
Chambers's Journal
Issue 798 (1879)
pp. 229-232. 60. Thomas Hardy
A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day (London: Macmillan
1912)
pp. 20-25. 61. Hardwicke Rawnsley
'On Seeing a Telegraph Wire and Pillar Post Below Wordsworth's House'
in Sonnets at the English Lakes (London: Longman's
Green
& Co
1881)
p. 35. 62. 'A Mesmeric-Telegraphic Discovery'
The Ladies' Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature
28 (1875)
pp. 69-74. 63. William T. Brannt
India Rubber
Gutta-Percha
and Balata (London: Sampson Low
Marston & Co
1900)
pp. 224-228
230-236
243-245
269-270. 64. James Collins
'Report on the Gutta Percha of Commerce
Being Information on the Plants Yielding It
Their Geographical Distribution
Climatic Conditions
and the Possibility of their Cultivation in India: together with supplementary remarks on Balata and Pseudo-Guttas Proposed as Substitutes
or as supplementary to Gutta Percha' (1878). 65. W. J. Gordon
'The Post-Office Horse'
in The Horse World of London (London: Religious Tract Society
1893)
pp. 69-73. 66. Alexander Anderson
'Killed on the Telegraph Wire'
Chambers' Journal
4:160
p 64. 67. Constance Fenimore Woolson
'Martins on a Telegraph Wire'
Constance Fenimore Woolson
ed. Clare Benedict (London
1930)
pp. 81-82 68. Anon.
'The Whale and the Telegraph Cable'
The Child's Companion; or Juvenile Instructor
n.d.
pp. 47-48. 69. John Munro
'Pests of the Wire'
English Illustrated Magazine
191 (August 1899)
pp. 492-497. Bibliography Index
Innovation
Transformation General Introduction Volume 2 Introduction Part 1: Conveying Information: Semaphores
Rails
and Steam Packets 1. Charles Dibdin
'The Telegraph'
The Songs of Charles Dibdin
chronologically arranged
with notes
historical
biographical
and critical... (London: How & Parsons
1842)
pp. 151-152. 2. 'Telegraphic Signals by Day and Night'
The Kaleidoscope
8: 386 (1827)
p. 161; 8: 388 (1827)
pp. 178-179. 3. 'The Telegraph'
The Tourist; or
Sketch Book of the Times
1: 6 ( 1832)
pp. 41-42. 4. Telegraphic Despatch'
Illustrated London News
16 July 1842
pp. 148-149. [Credit for Illustrations: From the British Library Collection: MFM.MLD47] 5. Frederick William Faber
'The Old French Telegraphs'
in Poems
3rd edn (London: Thomas Richardson and Son
1857)
pp. 489-490. 6. 'Semaphore Signals'
Young Folk's Paper
34: 952 (1889)
p. 11 7. Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee
Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (London: William H Allen and Co
1841)
pp. 86-7. 8. Anon
'The Travelling Post-Office'
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature
Science and Arts
394 (1861)
pp. 44-47. 9. William Delafield Arnold
'The Night Mail Train in India'
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
54: 324 (1856)
pp. 680-684. 10. John Hollingshead
'Right Through the Post'
All the Year Round
1 (1859)
pp. 190-92. 11. Talbot Thynne
'The Mail-Bag Apparatus Competition'
St-Martin's-le-Grand: The Post Office Magazine
3 (April 1891)
pp. 165-170. 12. 'A Travelling Post-Office'
in Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage (London: Jubilee Celebration Committee
1891)
p. 17. 13. Anon.
'Foreign and Colonial Mail-Packet Service'
Hampshire Advertiser
5 July 1851
p. 4. 14. John Capper
'A Mail-Packet Town'
Household Words 10 (1855)
pp. 501-504. 15. Anon.
'Ocean Mails'
The Graphic
16 September 1876
pp. 282-283. 16. Frederick Ebenezer Baines
extracts from 'The Port of Liverpool'
in On the Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son
1895)
pp. 180-181
185-193 Part 2: Making the Electric Telegraphs 17. Francis Ronalds
extracts from Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph
and of Some Other Electric Apparatus (London: R. Hunter
1823)
pp. 1-24. 18. G.W.K.
'Dr. Davy and the Electric Telegraph'
Argus
28 November 1883
p. 4. 19. Samuel Morse
letter to F.O.J Smith
15 February 1838
in Samuel Irenaeus Prime
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: D. Appleton and Company)
pp. 338-340. 20. William Fothergill Cooke
extract from The Electric Telegraph: Was it invented by Professor Wheatstone (London: W.H. Smith
1857)
pp. 3-9. 21. Charles Wheatstone
extract from A Reply to Mr. Cooke's pamphlet: "The Electric Telegraph; was it invented by Professor Wheatstone?" (London: Richard Taylor and William Francis
1855)
pp. 3-10 22. William Fothergill Cooke
Telegraphic Railways; or
the Single Way (London: Simpkin
Marshall
& Co
1842)
pp. 1-14
16-34 23. 'The Romance of the Electric Telegraph'
New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
8: 355 (1850)
pp. 296-307. 24. Anon.
'The Electric Telegraph'
Chambers's Papers for the People
9 (1851)
p. 32 Journal of the Society of Arts
15 (1867)
pp. 222-232 26. Extract from 'The Government and the Telegraphs'
Examiner
18 April 1868)
pp. 242-243 27. Extract from 'Telegraphs Under Government.'
All the Year Round
20:477 (1868)
pp. 38-39 28. 'Pneumatic Despatch Tubes in Connection with Postal Telegraphy'
The Morning Post
30 January 1871
p. 6. 29. 'Postal Telegraph Pneumatic Tubes'
The Birmingham Daily Post
29 October 1873
p. 8 Part 3: Transforming Communication: Space
Time
Signals
and Sounds 30. Extracts from The Handbook of Communication by Telegraph
Describing the Various Methods
Either by Flags Or Other Semaphores
and the Machines in Use
Etc. (London: Henry Kent Causton
1842)
pp. 19-25. 31. 'Morse's Telegraphy'
The Leisure hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation
683 (1865)
pp. 55-58 32. George Parsons Lathrop
'The Singing Wire'
in Dreams and Days: Poems (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
1892)
pp. 30-32. 33. Anon.
'The Dangers of Sound-Reading'
The Telegraphist
2:17 (1885)
p. 56. 34. Karl von Schlözer
'The Romance of a Telegraph Wire'
Strand Magazine
3 (1892)
pp. 202-205. 35. Henry James
In the Cage (London: Duckworth
1898)
pp. 2-5
10-33
74-80. Part 4: Submarine Telegraphy 36. 'The Submarine Telegraph'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
70: 433 (1851)
pp. 562
567-572. 37. J. C. Maxwell
letter to Lewis Campbell containing 'The Song of the Atlantic Telegraph Company' (1857)
in Lewis Campbell
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (London: Macmillan
1882)
pp. 278-280. 38. Anon.
'The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition'
Times
11 Aug. 1858
p. 4. 39. Laying the Atlantic Cable: Paying out the Land End of the Cable from the Stern of the 'Niagara'
Illustrated London News
22 August 1857
p. 12. Credit: Image reproduced with kind permission of Illustrated London News Ltc/Mary Evans.4 40. William Cullen Bryant
'The Electric Telegraph
Speech at a Dinner Given to Samuel Breese Morse'
1868
in Orations and Addresses (New York
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1873)
pp. 325-330. 41. Anon.
'At the Bottom of the Sea'
The Child's Companion
and Juvenile Instructor
116 (1878)
pp. 120-121. 42. Isabella Whiteford Rogerson
'The Atlantic Telegraph'
in Poems (Belfast: W M'Coomb
1860)
p. 221-222. 43. Charles Tennyson Turner
'The Telegraph Cable to India. Anticipative'
in Sonnets (London; Cambridge: Macmillan
1864)
p. 50. 44. Rudyard Kipling
'The Deep-Sea Cables'
in The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling
Vol 11: Verses
1889-1896 (New York: C. Scribner and Sons
1897). Part 5 Wireless Telegraphy 45. Silvanus P. Thompson
'Telegraphy Across Space'
Journal of the Society of Arts. 46:2367 (April 1
1898)
pp. 453-460 46. Richard Kerr
extract from Wireless Telegraphy: Popularly Explained (London: Sheeley
1898)
pp. 93-99. 47. Rudyard Kipling
'Wireless'
in Traffics and Discoveries (London: Macmillan
1904)
pp. 213-227. 48. H.C. Fyfe
'Wireless Wonders of the Future'
Review of Reviews
25: 147 (1902)
pp. 143-44. 49. Anon.
'Wireless Telegraphy and Journalism'
The Speaker: Liberal Review
18 (1898)
pp. 140-1. 50. Anon.
'Wireless "Wires" as News Carriers: An Important Journalistic Enterprise'
Westminster Gazette
15 June 1901
p. 7. Part 6 Telephony 51. Alexander Graham Bell
'The Telephone'
Musical Standard
13: 697 (1877)
pp. 358-359
13: 698 (1877) pp. 375-376
and 13: 699 (1877)
pp. 390-92. 52. Anon.
extracts from 'The Telephone'
Westminster Review
53 (1878)
pp. 208-221. 53. Thomas Anstey Guthrie
'Telephonic Theatre-Goers'
in The Man from Blankley
and other Sketches [reprinted from Punch] (London: Longman's
Green
and Co
1893)
pp. 128-133. 54. Thomas Anstey Guthrie
'Telephonic Theatre-Goers'
Punch
or the London Charivari
102 (1892)
p. 208. [Credit: From National Library Scotland X.231-233 SER] 55. Anon.
'Church by Telephone'
The Speaker
4 October 1890
pp. 370-371. 56. F. E. Baines
'A Future for the Glebe'
in On The Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son
1895)
pp. 325-339. 57. Anon
'The Telephone'
Chambers's Journal
2:72 (1899)
pp. 310-313. Part 7: Communication
Environment
and Ecology 58. 'The Earthquake Explained'
Punch
23 (1852)
p. 237. 59. Anon.
'Land Telegraph Lines'
Chambers's Journal
Issue 798 (1879)
pp. 229-232. 60. Thomas Hardy
A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day (London: Macmillan
1912)
pp. 20-25. 61. Hardwicke Rawnsley
'On Seeing a Telegraph Wire and Pillar Post Below Wordsworth's House'
in Sonnets at the English Lakes (London: Longman's
Green
& Co
1881)
p. 35. 62. 'A Mesmeric-Telegraphic Discovery'
The Ladies' Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature
28 (1875)
pp. 69-74. 63. William T. Brannt
India Rubber
Gutta-Percha
and Balata (London: Sampson Low
Marston & Co
1900)
pp. 224-228
230-236
243-245
269-270. 64. James Collins
'Report on the Gutta Percha of Commerce
Being Information on the Plants Yielding It
Their Geographical Distribution
Climatic Conditions
and the Possibility of their Cultivation in India: together with supplementary remarks on Balata and Pseudo-Guttas Proposed as Substitutes
or as supplementary to Gutta Percha' (1878). 65. W. J. Gordon
'The Post-Office Horse'
in The Horse World of London (London: Religious Tract Society
1893)
pp. 69-73. 66. Alexander Anderson
'Killed on the Telegraph Wire'
Chambers' Journal
4:160
p 64. 67. Constance Fenimore Woolson
'Martins on a Telegraph Wire'
Constance Fenimore Woolson
ed. Clare Benedict (London
1930)
pp. 81-82 68. Anon.
'The Whale and the Telegraph Cable'
The Child's Companion; or Juvenile Instructor
n.d.
pp. 47-48. 69. John Munro
'Pests of the Wire'
English Illustrated Magazine
191 (August 1899)
pp. 492-497. Bibliography Index
Volume 2: Invention
Innovation
Transformation General Introduction Volume 2 Introduction Part 1: Conveying Information: Semaphores
Rails
and Steam Packets 1. Charles Dibdin
'The Telegraph'
The Songs of Charles Dibdin
chronologically arranged
with notes
historical
biographical
and critical... (London: How & Parsons
1842)
pp. 151-152. 2. 'Telegraphic Signals by Day and Night'
The Kaleidoscope
8: 386 (1827)
p. 161; 8: 388 (1827)
pp. 178-179. 3. 'The Telegraph'
The Tourist; or
Sketch Book of the Times
1: 6 ( 1832)
pp. 41-42. 4. Telegraphic Despatch'
Illustrated London News
16 July 1842
pp. 148-149. [Credit for Illustrations: From the British Library Collection: MFM.MLD47] 5. Frederick William Faber
'The Old French Telegraphs'
in Poems
3rd edn (London: Thomas Richardson and Son
1857)
pp. 489-490. 6. 'Semaphore Signals'
Young Folk's Paper
34: 952 (1889)
p. 11 7. Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee
Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (London: William H Allen and Co
1841)
pp. 86-7. 8. Anon
'The Travelling Post-Office'
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature
Science and Arts
394 (1861)
pp. 44-47. 9. William Delafield Arnold
'The Night Mail Train in India'
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
54: 324 (1856)
pp. 680-684. 10. John Hollingshead
'Right Through the Post'
All the Year Round
1 (1859)
pp. 190-92. 11. Talbot Thynne
'The Mail-Bag Apparatus Competition'
St-Martin's-le-Grand: The Post Office Magazine
3 (April 1891)
pp. 165-170. 12. 'A Travelling Post-Office'
in Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage (London: Jubilee Celebration Committee
1891)
p. 17. 13. Anon.
'Foreign and Colonial Mail-Packet Service'
Hampshire Advertiser
5 July 1851
p. 4. 14. John Capper
'A Mail-Packet Town'
Household Words 10 (1855)
pp. 501-504. 15. Anon.
'Ocean Mails'
The Graphic
16 September 1876
pp. 282-283. 16. Frederick Ebenezer Baines
extracts from 'The Port of Liverpool'
in On the Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son
1895)
pp. 180-181
185-193 Part 2: Making the Electric Telegraphs 17. Francis Ronalds
extracts from Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph
and of Some Other Electric Apparatus (London: R. Hunter
1823)
pp. 1-24. 18. G.W.K.
'Dr. Davy and the Electric Telegraph'
Argus
28 November 1883
p. 4. 19. Samuel Morse
letter to F.O.J Smith
15 February 1838
in Samuel Irenaeus Prime
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: D. Appleton and Company)
pp. 338-340. 20. William Fothergill Cooke
extract from The Electric Telegraph: Was it invented by Professor Wheatstone (London: W.H. Smith
1857)
pp. 3-9. 21. Charles Wheatstone
extract from A Reply to Mr. Cooke's pamphlet: "The Electric Telegraph; was it invented by Professor Wheatstone?" (London: Richard Taylor and William Francis
1855)
pp. 3-10 22. William Fothergill Cooke
Telegraphic Railways; or
the Single Way (London: Simpkin
Marshall
& Co
1842)
pp. 1-14
16-34 23. 'The Romance of the Electric Telegraph'
New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
8: 355 (1850)
pp. 296-307. 24. Anon.
'The Electric Telegraph'
Chambers's Papers for the People
9 (1851)
p. 32 Journal of the Society of Arts
15 (1867)
pp. 222-232 26. Extract from 'The Government and the Telegraphs'
Examiner
18 April 1868)
pp. 242-243 27. Extract from 'Telegraphs Under Government.'
All the Year Round
20:477 (1868)
pp. 38-39 28. 'Pneumatic Despatch Tubes in Connection with Postal Telegraphy'
The Morning Post
30 January 1871
p. 6. 29. 'Postal Telegraph Pneumatic Tubes'
The Birmingham Daily Post
29 October 1873
p. 8 Part 3: Transforming Communication: Space
Time
Signals
and Sounds 30. Extracts from The Handbook of Communication by Telegraph
Describing the Various Methods
Either by Flags Or Other Semaphores
and the Machines in Use
Etc. (London: Henry Kent Causton
1842)
pp. 19-25. 31. 'Morse's Telegraphy'
The Leisure hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation
683 (1865)
pp. 55-58 32. George Parsons Lathrop
'The Singing Wire'
in Dreams and Days: Poems (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
1892)
pp. 30-32. 33. Anon.
'The Dangers of Sound-Reading'
The Telegraphist
2:17 (1885)
p. 56. 34. Karl von Schlözer
'The Romance of a Telegraph Wire'
Strand Magazine
3 (1892)
pp. 202-205. 35. Henry James
In the Cage (London: Duckworth
1898)
pp. 2-5
10-33
74-80. Part 4: Submarine Telegraphy 36. 'The Submarine Telegraph'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
70: 433 (1851)
pp. 562
567-572. 37. J. C. Maxwell
letter to Lewis Campbell containing 'The Song of the Atlantic Telegraph Company' (1857)
in Lewis Campbell
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (London: Macmillan
1882)
pp. 278-280. 38. Anon.
'The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition'
Times
11 Aug. 1858
p. 4. 39. Laying the Atlantic Cable: Paying out the Land End of the Cable from the Stern of the 'Niagara'
Illustrated London News
22 August 1857
p. 12. Credit: Image reproduced with kind permission of Illustrated London News Ltc/Mary Evans.4 40. William Cullen Bryant
'The Electric Telegraph
Speech at a Dinner Given to Samuel Breese Morse'
1868
in Orations and Addresses (New York
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1873)
pp. 325-330. 41. Anon.
'At the Bottom of the Sea'
The Child's Companion
and Juvenile Instructor
116 (1878)
pp. 120-121. 42. Isabella Whiteford Rogerson
'The Atlantic Telegraph'
in Poems (Belfast: W M'Coomb
1860)
p. 221-222. 43. Charles Tennyson Turner
'The Telegraph Cable to India. Anticipative'
in Sonnets (London; Cambridge: Macmillan
1864)
p. 50. 44. Rudyard Kipling
'The Deep-Sea Cables'
in The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling
Vol 11: Verses
1889-1896 (New York: C. Scribner and Sons
1897). Part 5 Wireless Telegraphy 45. Silvanus P. Thompson
'Telegraphy Across Space'
Journal of the Society of Arts. 46:2367 (April 1
1898)
pp. 453-460 46. Richard Kerr
extract from Wireless Telegraphy: Popularly Explained (London: Sheeley
1898)
pp. 93-99. 47. Rudyard Kipling
'Wireless'
in Traffics and Discoveries (London: Macmillan
1904)
pp. 213-227. 48. H.C. Fyfe
'Wireless Wonders of the Future'
Review of Reviews
25: 147 (1902)
pp. 143-44. 49. Anon.
'Wireless Telegraphy and Journalism'
The Speaker: Liberal Review
18 (1898)
pp. 140-1. 50. Anon.
'Wireless "Wires" as News Carriers: An Important Journalistic Enterprise'
Westminster Gazette
15 June 1901
p. 7. Part 6 Telephony 51. Alexander Graham Bell
'The Telephone'
Musical Standard
13: 697 (1877)
pp. 358-359
13: 698 (1877) pp. 375-376
and 13: 699 (1877)
pp. 390-92. 52. Anon.
extracts from 'The Telephone'
Westminster Review
53 (1878)
pp. 208-221. 53. Thomas Anstey Guthrie
'Telephonic Theatre-Goers'
in The Man from Blankley
and other Sketches [reprinted from Punch] (London: Longman's
Green
and Co
1893)
pp. 128-133. 54. Thomas Anstey Guthrie
'Telephonic Theatre-Goers'
Punch
or the London Charivari
102 (1892)
p. 208. [Credit: From National Library Scotland X.231-233 SER] 55. Anon.
'Church by Telephone'
The Speaker
4 October 1890
pp. 370-371. 56. F. E. Baines
'A Future for the Glebe'
in On The Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son
1895)
pp. 325-339. 57. Anon
'The Telephone'
Chambers's Journal
2:72 (1899)
pp. 310-313. Part 7: Communication
Environment
and Ecology 58. 'The Earthquake Explained'
Punch
23 (1852)
p. 237. 59. Anon.
'Land Telegraph Lines'
Chambers's Journal
Issue 798 (1879)
pp. 229-232. 60. Thomas Hardy
A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day (London: Macmillan
1912)
pp. 20-25. 61. Hardwicke Rawnsley
'On Seeing a Telegraph Wire and Pillar Post Below Wordsworth's House'
in Sonnets at the English Lakes (London: Longman's
Green
& Co
1881)
p. 35. 62. 'A Mesmeric-Telegraphic Discovery'
The Ladies' Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature
28 (1875)
pp. 69-74. 63. William T. Brannt
India Rubber
Gutta-Percha
and Balata (London: Sampson Low
Marston & Co
1900)
pp. 224-228
230-236
243-245
269-270. 64. James Collins
'Report on the Gutta Percha of Commerce
Being Information on the Plants Yielding It
Their Geographical Distribution
Climatic Conditions
and the Possibility of their Cultivation in India: together with supplementary remarks on Balata and Pseudo-Guttas Proposed as Substitutes
or as supplementary to Gutta Percha' (1878). 65. W. J. Gordon
'The Post-Office Horse'
in The Horse World of London (London: Religious Tract Society
1893)
pp. 69-73. 66. Alexander Anderson
'Killed on the Telegraph Wire'
Chambers' Journal
4:160
p 64. 67. Constance Fenimore Woolson
'Martins on a Telegraph Wire'
Constance Fenimore Woolson
ed. Clare Benedict (London
1930)
pp. 81-82 68. Anon.
'The Whale and the Telegraph Cable'
The Child's Companion; or Juvenile Instructor
n.d.
pp. 47-48. 69. John Munro
'Pests of the Wire'
English Illustrated Magazine
191 (August 1899)
pp. 492-497. Bibliography Index
Innovation
Transformation General Introduction Volume 2 Introduction Part 1: Conveying Information: Semaphores
Rails
and Steam Packets 1. Charles Dibdin
'The Telegraph'
The Songs of Charles Dibdin
chronologically arranged
with notes
historical
biographical
and critical... (London: How & Parsons
1842)
pp. 151-152. 2. 'Telegraphic Signals by Day and Night'
The Kaleidoscope
8: 386 (1827)
p. 161; 8: 388 (1827)
pp. 178-179. 3. 'The Telegraph'
The Tourist; or
Sketch Book of the Times
1: 6 ( 1832)
pp. 41-42. 4. Telegraphic Despatch'
Illustrated London News
16 July 1842
pp. 148-149. [Credit for Illustrations: From the British Library Collection: MFM.MLD47] 5. Frederick William Faber
'The Old French Telegraphs'
in Poems
3rd edn (London: Thomas Richardson and Son
1857)
pp. 489-490. 6. 'Semaphore Signals'
Young Folk's Paper
34: 952 (1889)
p. 11 7. Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee
Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (London: William H Allen and Co
1841)
pp. 86-7. 8. Anon
'The Travelling Post-Office'
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature
Science and Arts
394 (1861)
pp. 44-47. 9. William Delafield Arnold
'The Night Mail Train in India'
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
54: 324 (1856)
pp. 680-684. 10. John Hollingshead
'Right Through the Post'
All the Year Round
1 (1859)
pp. 190-92. 11. Talbot Thynne
'The Mail-Bag Apparatus Competition'
St-Martin's-le-Grand: The Post Office Magazine
3 (April 1891)
pp. 165-170. 12. 'A Travelling Post-Office'
in Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage (London: Jubilee Celebration Committee
1891)
p. 17. 13. Anon.
'Foreign and Colonial Mail-Packet Service'
Hampshire Advertiser
5 July 1851
p. 4. 14. John Capper
'A Mail-Packet Town'
Household Words 10 (1855)
pp. 501-504. 15. Anon.
'Ocean Mails'
The Graphic
16 September 1876
pp. 282-283. 16. Frederick Ebenezer Baines
extracts from 'The Port of Liverpool'
in On the Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son
1895)
pp. 180-181
185-193 Part 2: Making the Electric Telegraphs 17. Francis Ronalds
extracts from Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph
and of Some Other Electric Apparatus (London: R. Hunter
1823)
pp. 1-24. 18. G.W.K.
'Dr. Davy and the Electric Telegraph'
Argus
28 November 1883
p. 4. 19. Samuel Morse
letter to F.O.J Smith
15 February 1838
in Samuel Irenaeus Prime
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: D. Appleton and Company)
pp. 338-340. 20. William Fothergill Cooke
extract from The Electric Telegraph: Was it invented by Professor Wheatstone (London: W.H. Smith
1857)
pp. 3-9. 21. Charles Wheatstone
extract from A Reply to Mr. Cooke's pamphlet: "The Electric Telegraph; was it invented by Professor Wheatstone?" (London: Richard Taylor and William Francis
1855)
pp. 3-10 22. William Fothergill Cooke
Telegraphic Railways; or
the Single Way (London: Simpkin
Marshall
& Co
1842)
pp. 1-14
16-34 23. 'The Romance of the Electric Telegraph'
New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
8: 355 (1850)
pp. 296-307. 24. Anon.
'The Electric Telegraph'
Chambers's Papers for the People
9 (1851)
p. 32 Journal of the Society of Arts
15 (1867)
pp. 222-232 26. Extract from 'The Government and the Telegraphs'
Examiner
18 April 1868)
pp. 242-243 27. Extract from 'Telegraphs Under Government.'
All the Year Round
20:477 (1868)
pp. 38-39 28. 'Pneumatic Despatch Tubes in Connection with Postal Telegraphy'
The Morning Post
30 January 1871
p. 6. 29. 'Postal Telegraph Pneumatic Tubes'
The Birmingham Daily Post
29 October 1873
p. 8 Part 3: Transforming Communication: Space
Time
Signals
and Sounds 30. Extracts from The Handbook of Communication by Telegraph
Describing the Various Methods
Either by Flags Or Other Semaphores
and the Machines in Use
Etc. (London: Henry Kent Causton
1842)
pp. 19-25. 31. 'Morse's Telegraphy'
The Leisure hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation
683 (1865)
pp. 55-58 32. George Parsons Lathrop
'The Singing Wire'
in Dreams and Days: Poems (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
1892)
pp. 30-32. 33. Anon.
'The Dangers of Sound-Reading'
The Telegraphist
2:17 (1885)
p. 56. 34. Karl von Schlözer
'The Romance of a Telegraph Wire'
Strand Magazine
3 (1892)
pp. 202-205. 35. Henry James
In the Cage (London: Duckworth
1898)
pp. 2-5
10-33
74-80. Part 4: Submarine Telegraphy 36. 'The Submarine Telegraph'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
70: 433 (1851)
pp. 562
567-572. 37. J. C. Maxwell
letter to Lewis Campbell containing 'The Song of the Atlantic Telegraph Company' (1857)
in Lewis Campbell
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (London: Macmillan
1882)
pp. 278-280. 38. Anon.
'The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition'
Times
11 Aug. 1858
p. 4. 39. Laying the Atlantic Cable: Paying out the Land End of the Cable from the Stern of the 'Niagara'
Illustrated London News
22 August 1857
p. 12. Credit: Image reproduced with kind permission of Illustrated London News Ltc/Mary Evans.4 40. William Cullen Bryant
'The Electric Telegraph
Speech at a Dinner Given to Samuel Breese Morse'
1868
in Orations and Addresses (New York
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1873)
pp. 325-330. 41. Anon.
'At the Bottom of the Sea'
The Child's Companion
and Juvenile Instructor
116 (1878)
pp. 120-121. 42. Isabella Whiteford Rogerson
'The Atlantic Telegraph'
in Poems (Belfast: W M'Coomb
1860)
p. 221-222. 43. Charles Tennyson Turner
'The Telegraph Cable to India. Anticipative'
in Sonnets (London; Cambridge: Macmillan
1864)
p. 50. 44. Rudyard Kipling
'The Deep-Sea Cables'
in The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling
Vol 11: Verses
1889-1896 (New York: C. Scribner and Sons
1897). Part 5 Wireless Telegraphy 45. Silvanus P. Thompson
'Telegraphy Across Space'
Journal of the Society of Arts. 46:2367 (April 1
1898)
pp. 453-460 46. Richard Kerr
extract from Wireless Telegraphy: Popularly Explained (London: Sheeley
1898)
pp. 93-99. 47. Rudyard Kipling
'Wireless'
in Traffics and Discoveries (London: Macmillan
1904)
pp. 213-227. 48. H.C. Fyfe
'Wireless Wonders of the Future'
Review of Reviews
25: 147 (1902)
pp. 143-44. 49. Anon.
'Wireless Telegraphy and Journalism'
The Speaker: Liberal Review
18 (1898)
pp. 140-1. 50. Anon.
'Wireless "Wires" as News Carriers: An Important Journalistic Enterprise'
Westminster Gazette
15 June 1901
p. 7. Part 6 Telephony 51. Alexander Graham Bell
'The Telephone'
Musical Standard
13: 697 (1877)
pp. 358-359
13: 698 (1877) pp. 375-376
and 13: 699 (1877)
pp. 390-92. 52. Anon.
extracts from 'The Telephone'
Westminster Review
53 (1878)
pp. 208-221. 53. Thomas Anstey Guthrie
'Telephonic Theatre-Goers'
in The Man from Blankley
and other Sketches [reprinted from Punch] (London: Longman's
Green
and Co
1893)
pp. 128-133. 54. Thomas Anstey Guthrie
'Telephonic Theatre-Goers'
Punch
or the London Charivari
102 (1892)
p. 208. [Credit: From National Library Scotland X.231-233 SER] 55. Anon.
'Church by Telephone'
The Speaker
4 October 1890
pp. 370-371. 56. F. E. Baines
'A Future for the Glebe'
in On The Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son
1895)
pp. 325-339. 57. Anon
'The Telephone'
Chambers's Journal
2:72 (1899)
pp. 310-313. Part 7: Communication
Environment
and Ecology 58. 'The Earthquake Explained'
Punch
23 (1852)
p. 237. 59. Anon.
'Land Telegraph Lines'
Chambers's Journal
Issue 798 (1879)
pp. 229-232. 60. Thomas Hardy
A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day (London: Macmillan
1912)
pp. 20-25. 61. Hardwicke Rawnsley
'On Seeing a Telegraph Wire and Pillar Post Below Wordsworth's House'
in Sonnets at the English Lakes (London: Longman's
Green
& Co
1881)
p. 35. 62. 'A Mesmeric-Telegraphic Discovery'
The Ladies' Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature
28 (1875)
pp. 69-74. 63. William T. Brannt
India Rubber
Gutta-Percha
and Balata (London: Sampson Low
Marston & Co
1900)
pp. 224-228
230-236
243-245
269-270. 64. James Collins
'Report on the Gutta Percha of Commerce
Being Information on the Plants Yielding It
Their Geographical Distribution
Climatic Conditions
and the Possibility of their Cultivation in India: together with supplementary remarks on Balata and Pseudo-Guttas Proposed as Substitutes
or as supplementary to Gutta Percha' (1878). 65. W. J. Gordon
'The Post-Office Horse'
in The Horse World of London (London: Religious Tract Society
1893)
pp. 69-73. 66. Alexander Anderson
'Killed on the Telegraph Wire'
Chambers' Journal
4:160
p 64. 67. Constance Fenimore Woolson
'Martins on a Telegraph Wire'
Constance Fenimore Woolson
ed. Clare Benedict (London
1930)
pp. 81-82 68. Anon.
'The Whale and the Telegraph Cable'
The Child's Companion; or Juvenile Instructor
n.d.
pp. 47-48. 69. John Munro
'Pests of the Wire'
English Illustrated Magazine
191 (August 1899)
pp. 492-497. Bibliography Index







