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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF COW Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of American businessman and financier Cyrus Field, who helped in the creation of the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
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c2013., Grove Press Call No: COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY NF LAP Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses the history of the American telephone system and the flaw that was exploited by underground, counter-culture phone phreaks and mobsters through the use of technology developed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and the federal government's efforts to stop them.
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2004., Enslow Pub. Call No: 621.382 MCC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: In American historySummary Note: Takes a look at the early history of telecommunications.
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-- Telegraph and telephonec2004, Enslow Publishers Call No: 384.1 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: In American historySummary Note: Examines the early history of telecommunications, discussing the work of Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, and other inventors who contributed to the efforts to create the telegraph and telephone.
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2019., Juvenile, Henry Holt and Company Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that's who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions--only if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication forever? Samuel Morse, that's who! This dynamic and substantive biography celebrates an early technology pioneer"--From the publisher's web site.
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c1996., Abbeville Press Publishers Call No: 978 .02 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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By Larson, Erikc2006., Three Rivers Press Call No: WORLD HISTORY Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H. Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the ability to send wireless transatlantic transmissions.