Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications BISAC-SPO012000 Stone may well have met

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Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications BISAC-SPO012000 Stone may well have metThe 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.