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Letters of John Richard Green
Excerpt from Letters of John Richard Green I must ask readers of these letters to take for granted that there have been sufficient reasons for the long delay in their appearance. A few words will explain my own share in the present publication. When Mrs. Green asked me to act as editor I replied that I thought myself disqualified by the slightness of my acquaintance with the writer. When, however, Mrs. Green, after considering this and other objections, came to the conclusion that under all the circumstances the proposed arrangement would be the most satisfactory to her I could no longer hesitate. I accepted the position, and have tried to do the work to the best of my ability. I was encoura...
Network Nation
The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but ...
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