Electric Telegraph. A social and economic history
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- Author(s) Kieve, Jeffrey L
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1973
- Pages 310pp; illus
- Publisher David & Charles
- Place Published Newton Abbot
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Detailed and scholarly history of the development of telegraphic communication and of the telegraphy industry in the UK and in particular its social and economic impact through to 1940s, although largely to 1918. Much about individual businesses - Electric Telegraph Co Ltd, Magnetic Telegraph Co Ltd, Direct Telegraph Co Ltd, Post Office. Much drawn from an MPhil thesis - J L Kieve, 'Telegraph Industry, 1837-1890', MPhil, LSE, 1970. Has chapters: 'Origins and development to 1837'; ''The cords that hung tawell'; 'Development under the companies'; 'Analysis of the telegraphy industry to 1868'; 'Achievement in submarine telegraphy'; 'The case for public enterprise'; 'Nationalisation 1868'; 'The Telegraph Acts'; 'The Post Office telegraph'; 'Telegraph monopoly and telephone development'; 'The press subsidy'; 'Uses and misuses'; 'Between upper and nether millstones' [2023]