Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Communication and Technology, 1850-1950

By Gregory Downey, Gregory Downey, Gregory Downey

Book Overview

In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beyond the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415931096
• ISBN13: 9780415931090
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"