History of Telegraphy

Beauchamp, K. G.

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“…34 Reuter's venture into the telegraph service greatly influenced his news business: the Irish overland connection alone secured him an eight-hour advantage over his rivals on transatlantic news. 35 As costs for obtaining transatlantic news rose, Reuter decided in 1868 to enter the Atlantic telegraph market. Together with Baron Emil d'Erlanger, he launched the French Cable Company to secure cheap telegraphic rates.…”

Section: On the Economy Of Global Telegraph Communicationsmentioning

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‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914

Müller¹,

Tworek

2015

Journal of Global History

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This article uses the example of submarine telegraphy to trace the interdependence between global communications and modern capitalism. It uncovers how cable entrepreneurs created the global telegraph network based upon particular understandings of cross-border trade, while economists such as John Maynard Keynes and John Hobson saw global communications as the foundation for capitalist exchange. Global telegraphic networks were constructed to support extant capitalist systems until the 1890s, when states and corporations began to lay telegraph cables to open up new markets, particularly in Asia and Latin America, as well as for strategic and military reasons. The article examines how the interaction between telegraphy and capitalism created particular geographical spaces and social orders despite opposition from myriad Western and non-Western groups. It argues that scholars need to account for the role of infrastructure in creating asymmetrical information and access to trade that have continued to the present day.

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Section: On the Economy Of Global Telegraph Communicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914

Müller¹,

Tworek

2015

Journal of Global History

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“…The first trials in sending and receiving acoustic signals (speech) have been undertaken by Charles Grafton Page in 1837, who has been able to transfer "galvanic music"; those of transferring visual data (images) nearly at the same time by Alexander Bain, who constructed a black - white telegraph. A detailed description of the amazing history can be found in Beauchamp, and in Huurdeman [ 1 , 2 ]. Thus, the principle roots of telemedicine range back for more than 150 years.…”

Section: History and Mile Stones Of Telemedicine/telepathologymentioning

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“…Obviously, medical diagnoses and treatment depend upon human senses, especially visual and acoustic information. Visual information is the most frequently used "objective" diagnostic source whereas acoustic information is mainly characterized by the patient's senses and their linguistic terms [ 1 , 2 ]. These diagnostic information sources can be distinguished in four main components that include environmental data (home care, accidents, etc.…”

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History and structures of telecommunication in pathology, focusing on open access platforms

Kayser

Borkenfeld²,

Djenouni³

et al. 2011

Diagn Pathol

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BackgroundTelecommunication has matured to a broadly applied tool in diagnostic pathology.Technology and SystemsContemporary with the development of fast electronic communication lines (Integrated digital network services (ISDN), broad band connections, and fibre optics, as well as the digital imaging technology (digital camera), telecommunication in tissue - based diagnosis (telepathology) has matured. Open access (internet) and server - based communication have induced the development of specific medical information platforms, such as iPATH, UICC-TPCC (telepathology consultation centre of the Union International against Cancer), or the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) teleconsultation system. They have been closed, and are subject to be replaced by specific open access forums (Medical Electronic Expert Communication System (MECES) with embedded virtual slide (VS) technology). MECES uses php language, data base driven mySqL architecture, X/L-AMPP infrastructure, and browser friendly W3C conform standards.ExperiencesThe server - based medical communication systems (AFIP, iPATH, UICC-TPCC) have been reported to be a useful and easy to handle tool for expert consultation. Correct sampling and evaluation of transmitted still images by experts reported revealed no or only minor differences to the original images and good practice of the involved experts. β tests with the new generation medical expert consultation systems (MECES) revealed superior results in terms of performance, still image viewing, and system handling, especially as this is closely related to the use of so - called social forums (facebook, youtube, etc.).Benefits and ExpectationsIn addition to the acknowledged advantages of the former established systems (assistance of pathologists working in developing countries, diagnosis confirmation, international information exchange, etc.), the new generation offers additional benefits such as acoustic information transfer, assistance in image screening, VS technology, and teaching in diagnostic sampling, judgement, and verification.

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“…The first unbroken telegraph connection to India that opened in January 1865 took days, rather than hours, to carry messages to the subcontinent, and they frequently arrived in a garbled and unusable state. 39 They then had to be handled and rehandled by the ubiquitous 'messenger boys' who became a familiar trope of both late 19th-century fiction and attempts to understand and appeal to 'the people'. It was and is a class that Gregory Downey has well evoked in an American context, and whose lives are obliterated in any simple-minded treatment of the 'first internet'.…”

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New Histories of British Imperial Communication and the ‘Networked World’ of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

O’Hara

2010

History Compass

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A number of recent histories of Britain's late-19th century telegraph network have taken inspiration from many sources, not least historians' concern to test and delineate the contemporary and modern world of transnational policymaking, the return of maritime history to the forefront of historical studies, and the desire to understand the late 19th century empire that seemed to be drawing strength from technological progress. But another key reason for this new interest in the electric telegraph is clearly the communications revolution of the last 20 years, and the internet's development as the main means of dealing with information in the modern world. This article demonstrates just how important this present-mindedness has been, but it also shows just how unlike the internet was the Victorian telegraph system, for it was expensive, patchy and often unreliable, encouraging letter-writing and ship-borne commerce just as much as electronic communication. The telegraph's inauguration reinforced local and imperial nationalisms and rivalries, and arms races, whatever the liberal hopes invested in it; its arrival often led to the concentration of press ownership and a sense of intra-imperial, rather than global or trans-continental, links. The example of the telegraph, it is contended, should form a cautionary example of how problematical it is to take present-day developments and apply them -even as organising concepts -to the past.

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History of Telegraphy

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‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914

‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914

History and structures of telecommunication in pathology, focusing on open access platforms

New Histories of British Imperial Communication and the ‘Networked World’ of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

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