T e l e g r a p h, T e l e p h o n e & W i r e l
e s s:
How Telecom Changed the World
by Bert Lundy
Table of Contents
Chronology
Introduction
Part 1: The
Telegraph
1 Primitive
communications systems : early times
2 Optical
telegraph systems, or semaphores
3 Electrical
advances and early electrical telegraph systems
4 Cooke
and Wheatstone's telegraph system in Britain
5 Samuel
Morse: The first U.S. telegraph line,
1832-44
6 Beginnings
of an Empire 1844-46
7 The
northern lines: New York to Boston, Buffalo and Canada
8 Henry
O'Rielly and the West
9 O'Rielly,
Smith, Kendall: failed compromise and divorce, 1847
10 Explosive
growth, destructive
competition: 1847-52
11 Consolidation,
and the first great American monopoly: 1852-66
12 Impact
of the telegraph: the press
13 Impact
of the telegraph: the railroad
14 The
fight to put the telegraph under government control
15 The
nation's telecom network
16 Decline
and conclusions
Part 2: The
Atlantic Telegraph Cable
1 Seed
of a grand plan
2 The
plan: raising capital, formation of the company
3 Newfoundland
4 The
first attempt: 1857
5 The
first expedition of 1858
6 The
second expedition of 1858
7 The
inquest
8 The
Great Eastern
9 Another
try: 1865
10 Victory
at last: 1866
11 The
overland telegraph
12 Conclusion
Part 3: The
Telephone and the AT&T Empire
1 A
Breakthrough and a Mystery
2 Invention
of the Telephone: Part 1
3 Invention
of the Telephone: Part 2
4 Early
days and the Dowd Case: 1877-80
5 Beginning
of the Bell System: 1880-99
6 Compete,
Consolidate, Compromise: 1900-13
7 A
milestone reached, a bullet dodged
1913-19
8 Good
times, bad times: 1919-40
9 Through
the war and after: 1940-49
10 Hush-a-phones
and Final Judgment: 1949-56
11 Above
890 and long distance competition
12 The
Carterphone decision and the birth of MCI
13 Clouds on
the Horizon
14 MCI's
struggle to survive
15 End
of an Era
16 A new
world: 1984-96
Part 4:
Wireless
1 Early
pioneers and Faraday
2 James
Clerk Maxwell
3 Hertz
and Lodge: confirmation of Maxwell's theory
4 Marconi
and Lodge: The wireless
telegraph
5 Fessenden: the wireless telephone
6 De
Forest: the 3-element audion
7 Litigation
and the creation of RCA
8 Rise
of the radio broadcast industry
9 Government regulation, Armstrong, and FM
10 Later
Developments
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the
Author