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Disorderly infrastructure and the role of government
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The articles in this volume portray government investment in wireless as a creature of recent events, but this overstates the degree to which the current historical moment is special.About:
This article is published in Government Information Quarterly.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Government & Telephone network.read more
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Networks of power : electrification in Western society, 1880-1930
TL;DR: A comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems is given in this paper, where the Dexter Prize winner describes large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.
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Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society
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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
Rudi Volti,Claude S. Fischer +1 more
TL;DR: Fischer's America Calling as mentioned in this paper explores how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century and finds that women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then wholeheartedly promoted.
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When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century
TL;DR: The authors describes how two newly invented communications technologies -the telephone and the electric light -were publicly envisioned, in specialized engineering trade journals as well as in more popular media, at the end of the nineteenth century.
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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
TL;DR: Fischer's America Calling as mentioned in this paper explores how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century and finds that women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then wholeheartedly promoted.
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