...Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of the Comintern and its significant role...

... Wireless Communication Gugliemo Marconi Telegraphs Telecommunications Globalization has become the buzzword of the 1990s. Beginning in the mid-1980s almost every popular or scholarly publication dealing with topics of a worldwide dimension will at one stage or the other resort to the term, taking...

... upon the pioneering work of others in telegraphy and journalism. He had been born Israel as Beer Josaphat but later became known as Paul Julius Reuter. He set up his ‘Submarine Telegraph’ office in October 1851 just before the opening of the undersea cable in November, and he negotiated a contract...

...This chapter details Gallman’s estimation of the current value and constant (1860) value capital stock on a decadal basis from 1840 to 1900 for Communication and Electric Utilities. These include Telegraphs, Telephones, and Electric Light and Power. These estimates involve the use of perpetual...

... World Wide Web computer science semaphores telegraphs communication According to The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) ¹ : cyberspace |ˈsʌɪbəspeɪs| noun [mass noun] the notional environment in which communication over computer networks occurs. I stayed...

...This chapter introduces us to the development of early electrical telegraphs. In 1780, a Frenchman named Claude Chappe invented a rudimentary telegraph. Don Fransisco Salva, a Barcelona physician, created an “electrostatic telegraph” under the patronage of the Spanish King, but this telegraph...

..., clubs, markets, banks, commercial buildings, hotels, theatres and cinemas. The new technologies of the age were served by striking buildings, including dockside waiting rooms, railway stations and posts and telegraph offices. Railway stations spread across almost the entire empire and introduced new...

...Judged by productivity growth, capital costs, and continuing controversies over freight rates, the railway policy in Britain after 1870 proved to be none too effective. The need for a policy on telephone technology fell between telegraphs and railways for, when state policy became a live issue...

... his own telegraph cables across the North Sea. Africa Reuters and to 1914 Asia Reuters and to 1914 Australia Reuters and to 1914 British Empire to 1914 cable network French Atlantic cable Germany Reuters and to 1914 Havas agency formed Norderney cable North America Reuters and to 1914 Wolff...

...colonialism railways telegraphs Rhodesia agricultural development Sauerdale Inyanga during the 1890s, Cecil Rhodes became one of the best-known celebrities in the British Empire. Thanks to images printed in the press, he was recognized on the streets of London...