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Karin Koehler is a Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Bangor University. Her research explores the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and connective infrastructure, focusing on Anglophone and Welsh-language material.

Nicola Kirkby held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Royal Holloway, London (2019-2023), investigating nineteenth-century infrastructure and literary culture. Her works include Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).

Kathleen McIlvenna is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Derby. Her research focuses on histories of work, health and retirement in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

Ellen Smith is a historian and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol. Her work explores communication cultures in colonial South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Harriet M. Thompson is Visiting Research Fellow in nineteenth-century literature and culture in the Department of English, King's College London. Her research explores the relationship between communications technologies and print culture.

Eleanor Hopkins is a Senior Policy Adviser in Higher Education & Research at the British Academy. She provides strategic oversight of the Academy's Research & Development (R&D), innovation and skills policy.

Klappentext

This volume foregrounds the close, and mutually informing, relationships between mediated communication and technological innovation during the nineteenth century. It draws attention to the fact that communication was a driver of innovation, but also considers how communication practices adapted to new media and technologies.

Inhalt

Volume 2: Invention, Innovation, Transformation

General Introduction

Volume 2 Introduction

Part 1: Conveying Information: Semaphores, Rails, and Steam Packets

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

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.

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

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

22. William Fothergill Cooke, Telegraphic Railway*s; or, the Single Way* (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co, 1842), pp. 1-14, 16-34

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

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

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

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.

31. 'Morse's Telegraphy', The Leisure hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation, 683 (1865), pp. 55-58

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.

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

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.

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