Containing matters pertaining to that excellent Signalling Device which most nobly Sounded in a New Age of Communication, approaching thus the Speed of Light, with vars. Applications from the Military to the Personal.
Timestamps:
introduction, history of the telegraph and telephone (0:00)
Selections from "Lighting Flashes and Electric Dashes": (1877) (18:39)
- Charles Barnard - "Kate - An Electro-mechanical Romance"
- Ralph Pope - "$1,000 Reward — My Foot Race with a Telegram"
- Henry Van Hoevenbergh - "Into the Jaws of Death, A Telegraph Operator's Story"
Henry James - "In the Cage" (1898) (50:29)
Clarín - "Goodbye, Lamb!" (1893) (1:31:32)
Bibliography:
Coe, Lewis - "The Telegraph, A History of Morse's Invention and its Predecessors in the United States", 1993
Estreich, Bob - "Antonio Meucci", Bob's Old Phones, http://www.telephonecollecting.org/Bobs%20phones/Pages/Essays/Meucci/Meucci.htm
Goble, Mark - "Beautiful circuits: modernism and the mediated life", 2010
Goble, Mark - "Wired Love: Pleasure at a Distance in Henry James and Others", ELH (English Literary History), Volume 74, Number 2, Summer 2007
Gregory's Mechanics - "History of the Telegraph", 1828
Liffen, John - "The Introduction of the Electric Telegraph in Britain, a Reappraisal of the Work of Cooke and Wheatstone", The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, Volume 80, Number 2, Jul. 2010
"Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes", 1877 edition https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lightning_Flashes_and_Electric_Dashes/hW8oAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
"Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes", 1882 edition https://books.google.com/books/about/Lightning_Flashes_and_Electric_Dashes.html?id=0bFEAQAAMAAJ
Otis, Laura Christine - "Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century", 2001
Schwantes, Benjamin Sidney Michael - "The Train And The Telegraph: A Revisionist History", 2019
Schöberlein, Stefan - "Call Me Maybe: Telephonic Romances and the Female Voice, 1880–1920", American Literary Realism, Volume 51, Number 1, Fall 2018
Schöberlein, Stefan - "Tapping the Wire: A Telegraphic Discourse", American Literature, Volume 88, Number 2, June 2016
Music and poetry:
"Postal Telegraph Quick Service March" (interlude 1) composed by J. Adler, 1894. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100000271/
"By Telegraph" (interlude 3), anonymous, from "Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes"
