Volume 2: Invention, Innovation, Transformation
General Introduction
Volume 2 Introduction
Part 1: Conveying Information: Semaphores, Rails, and Steam Packets
1.1 Optical Telegraph
1. Charles Dibdin, 'The Telegraph', The Songs of Charles Dibdin, chronologically arranged, with notes, historical, biographical, and critical... (London: How & Parsons, 1842), pp. 151-152.
2. ‘Telegraphic Signals by Day and Night’, The Kaleidoscope, 8: 386 (1827), p. 161; 8: 388 (1827), pp. 178-179.
3. ‘The Telegraph’, The Tourist; or, Sketch Book of the Times, 1: 6 ( 1832), pp. 41-42.
4. Telegraphic Despatch’, Illustrated London News, 16 July 1842, pp. 148-149. [Credit for Illustrations: From the British Library Collection: MFM.MLD47]
5. Frederick William Faber, ‘The Old French Telegraphs’, in Poems, 3rd edn (London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1857), pp. 489-490.
6. ‘Semaphore Signals’, Young Folk’s Paper, 34: 952 (1889), p. 11
1.2 Mail Trains
7. Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee, Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (London: William H Allen and Co, 1841), pp. 86-7.
8. Anon, ‘The Travelling Post-Office’, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, 394 (1861), pp. 44–47.
9. William Delafield Arnold, ‘The Night Mail Train in India’, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, 54: 324 (1856), pp. 680-684.
10. John Hollingshead, ‘Right Through the Post’, All the Year Round, 1 (1859), pp. 190–92.
11. Talbot Thynne, ‘The Mail-Bag Apparatus Competition’, St-Martin's-le-Grand: The Post Office Magazine, 3 (April 1891), pp. 165-170.
12. ‘A Travelling Post-Office’, in Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage (London: Jubilee Celebration Committee, 1891), p. 17.
1.3 Mail Packets
13. Anon., ‘Foreign and Colonial Mail-Packet Service’, Hampshire Advertiser, 5 July 1851, p. 4.
14. John Capper, ‘A Mail-Packet Town’, Household Words 10 (1855), pp. 501–504.
15. Anon., ‘Ocean Mails', The Graphic, 16 September 1876, pp. 282-283.
16. Frederick Ebenezer Baines, extracts from ‘The Port of Liverpool’, in On the Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son, 1895), pp. 180-181, 185-193
Part 2: Making the Electric Telegraphs
2.1 Inventing the Electric Telegraph
17. Francis Ronalds, extracts from Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph, and of Some Other Electric Apparatus (London: R. Hunter, 1823), pp. 1-24.
18. G.W.K., ‘Dr. Davy and the Electric Telegraph’, Argus, 28 November 1883, p. 4.
19. Samuel Morse, letter to F.O.J Smith, 15 February 1838, in Samuel Irenaeus Prime, The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: D. Appleton and Company), pp. 338-340.
20. William Fothergill Cooke, extract from The Electric Telegraph: Was it invented by Professor Wheatstone (London: W.H. Smith, 1857), pp. 3-9.
21. Charles Wheatstone, extract from A Reply to Mr. Cooke's pamphlet: "The Electric Telegraph; was it invented by Professor Wheatstone?" (London: Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1855), pp. 3-10
2.2 Telegraphic Railways
22. William Fothergill Cooke, Telegraphic Railways; or, the Single Way (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co, 1842), pp. 1-14, 16-34
2.3 ‘The Romance of the Electric Telegraph’
23. ‘The Romance of the Electric Telegraph’, New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 8: 355 (1850), pp. 296-307.
24. Anon., ‘The Electric Telegraph’, Chambers's Papers for the People, 9 (1851), p. 32
2.4 Nationalisation
25. Edwin Chadwick, extract from ‘On the Economy of Telegraphy as Part of a Public System of Postal Communication’, Journal of the Society of Arts, 15 (1867), pp. 222-232
26. Extract from ‘The Government and the Telegraphs’, Examiner, 18 April 1868), pp. 242-243
27. Extract from ‘Telegraphs Under Government.’, All the Year Round, 20:477 (1868), pp. 38–39
2.5 Pneumatic Tubes
28. ‘Pneumatic Despatch Tubes in Connection with Postal Telegraphy’, The Morning Post, 30 January 1871, p. 6.
29. ‘Postal Telegraph Pneumatic Tubes’, The Birmingham Daily Post,29 October 1873, p. 8
Part 3: Transforming Communication: Space, Time, Signals, and Sounds
3.1 Telegraphic Language
30. Extracts from The Handbook of Communication by Telegraph, Describing the Various Methods, Either by Flags Or Other Semaphores, and the Machines in Use, Etc. (London: Henry Kent Causton, 1842), pp. 19-25.
3.2 Morse’s Telegraphy
31. ‘Morse’s Telegraphy’, The Leisure hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation, 683 (1865), pp. 55-58
3.3 Sonic Perception
32. George Parsons Lathrop, ‘The Singing Wire’, in Dreams and Days: Poems (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892), pp. 30-32.
33. Anon., ‘The Dangers of Sound-Reading’, The Telegraphist, 2:17 (1885), p. 56.
3.4 Romance by Wire
34. Karl von Schlözer, ‘The Romance of a Telegraph Wire’, Strand Magazine, 3 (1892), pp. 202-205.
35. Henry James, In the Cage (London: Duckworth, 1898), pp. 2-5, 10-33, 74-80.
Part 4: Submarine Telegraphy
36. ‘The Submarine Telegraph’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 70: 433 (1851), pp. 562, 567-572.
37. J. C. Maxwell, letter to Lewis Campbell containing ‘The Song of the Atlantic Telegraph Company’ (1857), in Lewis Campbell, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (London: Macmillan, 1882), pp. 278-280.
38. Anon., ‘The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition’, Times, 11 Aug. 1858, p. 4.
39. Laying the Atlantic Cable: Paying out the Land End of the Cable from the Stern of the 'Niagara', Illustrated London News, 22 August 1857, p. 12. Credit: Image reproduced with kind permission of Illustrated London News Ltc/Mary Evans.4
40. William Cullen Bryant, ‘The Electric Telegraph, Speech at a Dinner Given to Samuel Breese Morse’, 1868, in Orations and Addresses (New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1873), pp. 325-330.
41. Anon., ‘At the Bottom of the Sea’, The Child’s Companion, and Juvenile Instructor, 116 (1878), pp. 120-121.
42. Isabella Whiteford Rogerson, 'The Atlantic Telegraph', in Poems (Belfast: W M'Coomb, 1860), p. 221-222.
43. Charles Tennyson Turner, ‘The Telegraph Cable to India. Anticipative', in Sonnets (London; Cambridge: Macmillan, 1864), p. 50.
44. Rudyard Kipling, 'The Deep-Sea Cables', in The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Vol 11: Verses, 1889-1896 (New York: C. Scribner and Sons, 1897).
Part 5 Wireless Telegraphy
5.1 Imagining the Wireless
45. Silvanus P. Thompson, 'Telegraphy Across Space', Journal of the Society of Arts. 46:2367 (April 1, 1898), pp. 453-460
46. Richard Kerr, extract from Wireless Telegraphy: Popularly Explained (London: Sheeley, 1898), pp. 93-99.
47. Rudyard Kipling, ‘Wireless’, in Traffics and Discoveries (London: Macmillan, 1904), pp. 213-227.
48. H.C. Fyfe, 'Wireless Wonders of the Future', Review of Reviews, 25: 147 (1902), pp. 143-44.
5.2 Wireless Communication and Journalism
49. Anon., ‘Wireless Telegraphy and Journalism', The Speaker: Liberal Review, 18 (1898), pp. 140-1.
50. Anon., ‘Wireless "Wires" as News Carriers: An Important Journalistic Enterprise', Westminster Gazette, 15 June 1901, p. 7.
Part 6 Telephony
6.1 Inventing the Telephone
51. Alexander Graham Bell, ‘The Telephone’, Musical Standard, 13: 697 (1877), pp. 358-359, 13: 698 (1877) pp. 375-376, and 13: 699 (1877), pp. 390-92.
52. Anon., extracts from ‘The Telephone’, Westminster Review, 53 (1878), pp. 208-221.
6.2 Telephone and Society
53. Thomas Anstey Guthrie, ‘Telephonic Theatre-Goers', in The Man from Blankley, and other Sketches [reprinted from Punch] (London: Longman’s, Green, and Co, 1893), pp. 128-133.
54. Thomas Anstey Guthrie, ‘Telephonic Theatre-Goers’, Punch, or the London Charivari, 102 (1892), p. 208. [Credit: From National Library Scotland X.231-233 SER]
55. Anon., ‘Church by Telephone’, The Speaker, 4 October 1890, pp. 370-371.
56. F. E. Baines, ‘A Future for the Glebe’, in On The Track of the Mail Coach (London: Bentley and Son, 1895), pp. 325-339.
57. Anon, ‘The Telephone’, Chambers’s Journal, 2:72 (1899), pp. 310-313.
Part 7: Communication, Environment, and Ecology
7. 1 Telegraphic Ecologies
58. ‘The Earthquake Explained’, Punch, 23 (1852), p. 237.
59. Anon., ‘Land Telegraph Lines’, Chambers’s Journal, Issue 798 (1879), pp. 229-232.
60. Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day (London: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 20-25.
61. Hardwicke Rawnsley, ‘On Seeing a Telegraph Wire and Pillar Post Below Wordsworth’s House’, in Sonnets at the English Lakes (London: Longman’s, Green,
& Co, 1881), p. 35.
62. ‘A Mesmeric-Telegraphic Discovery’, The Ladies’ Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature, 28 (1875), pp. 69-74.
7.2 Gutta Percha
63. William T. Brannt, India Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Balata (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1900), pp. 224-228, 230-236, 243-245, 269-270.
64. James Collins, ‘Report on the Gutta Percha of Commerce, Being Information on the Plants Yielding It, Their Geographical Distribution, Climatic Conditions, and the Possibility of their Cultivation in India: together with supplementary remarks on Balata and Pseudo-Guttas Proposed as Substitutes, or as supplementary to Gutta Percha’ (1878).
7.3 Animals and Communication
65. W. J. Gordon, ‘The Post-Office Horse’, in The Horse World of London (London: Religious Tract Society, 1893), pp. 69-73.
66. Alexander Anderson, ‘Killed on the Telegraph Wire’, Chambers’ Journal, 4:160, p 64.
67. Constance Fenimore Woolson, ‘Martins on a Telegraph Wire’, Constance Fenimore Woolson, ed. Clare Benedict (London, 1930), pp. 81-82
68. Anon., ‘The Whale and the Telegraph Cable’, The Child’s Companion; or Juvenile Instructor, n.d., pp. 47-48.
69. John Munro, ‘Pests of the Wire’, English Illustrated Magazine, 191 (August 1899), pp. 492-497.
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