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Communication Technology in History [index]

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Telephone

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Acland, Charles R., ed.  Residual Media.   Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007

American Journalism.  Vol. 17, No. 4 (Fall 2000): 1-161.  Special Issue on Technology in Journalism and Mass Communication History.

Bagdikian, Ben.  The Information Machines.  New York: Harper and Row, 1971.

Berlin, Leslie.  The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Bliven, Bruce, Jr., The Wonderful Writing Machine.  New York: Random House, 1954.  (typewriter)

Boczkowski, Pablo J.  Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.  (covers pre-Internet computer delivery)

Braun, Ernest and Stuart MacDonald.  Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978.

Brooks, John.  Telephone: The First Hundred Years.  New York: Harper and Row, 1976.

Bruce, Robert V.  Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude.  Boston: Little Brown, 1973.

Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and William Aspray.  Computer: A History of the Information Machine.  New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Carey, James W. “Journalism and Technology.” American Journalism 17, no. 4 (2000): 129–135.

Carey, James W. “Technology As a Totem for Culture.” American Journalism 7, no. 4 (1990): 242–51.

Chandler, Alfred D, Jr.  Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Science Industries.  New York: Free Press, 2001.

Corn, Joseph J.  Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.

Cortada, James.  Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Cortada, James W.  The Digital Hand, Volume 2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Cowen, Ruth Schwartz.  A Social History of American Technology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Cutcliffe, Stephen H. and Terry S. Reynolds, eds.  Technology and American History.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.*

Delbourgo, James.  “A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders:” Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Docter, Sharon Diane.  “The First Amendment and the Shaping of Communication Technology.”  Phd dissertation, University of Southern California, 1997.

Dooley, Patricia.  The Technology of Journalism: Cultural Agents, Cultural Icons.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.

Edwards, Paul N.  The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.

Endres, Kathleen. “The ‘Ballyhoo’ of New Communication Technology.” American Journalism 17, no. 4 (2000): 73–74.

Evans, Richard F.  "Shocking Improvements: Electricity in the American Household at the Turn of the Century."  Nineteenth Century 20 (Spring 2000): 29-34.

Fisher, Claude S.  America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Forester, Tom, ed.  The Information Technology Revolution.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.

Gabel, David.  "Competition in a Network Industry: The Telephone Industry, 1894-1910."  Journal of Economic History 54:3 (September 1994): 543-572.

Galloway, Jonathan F.  The Politics and Technology of Satellite Communication.  Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1972.

Garnet, Robert W.  The Telephone Enterprise.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B. Pingree.  New Media, 1740–1915. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

Gitelman, Lisa.  Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

Graham, Margaret B.W.  The Business of Research: RCA and the Videodisc.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Headrick, Daniel R.  When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Heide, Lars.  Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Holzman, Gerard, and Bjorn Pehrson.  Early History of Data Networks.  Los Alamitos, Cal.: IEEE Press, 1995.

Hudson, Heather E.  Communication Satellites: Their Development and Impact.  New York: Free Press, 1990.

Innis, Harold.  Empire and Communication.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950.

Innis, Harold.  The Bias of Communication.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1951.

Innis, Harold.  Changing Concepts of Time.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1952.

John, Richard B., ed.  "Computers and Communication Networks."  Business History Review 75 (Spring 2001).  Special issue.

Kern, Stephen.  The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Kraut, Robert, Malcolm Brynin, and Sara Kiesler, eds.  Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Lardner, James.  Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese, and the Onslaught of the VCR.  New York: Norton, 1987.

Lebow, Irwin.  Information Highways and Byways: From the Telegraph to the 21st Century.  New York: IEEE Press, 1995.

Lecuyer, Christophe.  Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

Lubar, Steven.  Infoculture: The Smithsonian Book of Information Age Inventions.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

MacDougall, Robert Duncan.  "The People's Telephone: The Politics of Technology in the United States and Canada, 1876-1926."  PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 2004.

MacDougall, Robert. “The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation.”  American Quarterly 58 (September 2006): 715–741.

Martin, Shannon E., and Kathleen A. Hansen.  Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.

Marvin, Carolyn.  When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Marx, Leo.  Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Millard, Andre.  Edison and the Business of Innovation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Mindich, David T. Z., ed.  "The Buzz: Technology in Journalism and Mass Communication History." American Journalism 17 (Fall 2000): Special issue.

Mowery, David C., and Nathan Rosenberg.  Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in the 20th Century.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Nebker, Frederik.  Dawn of the Electric Age: Electrical Technologies and the Shaping of the Modern World.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Noble, David F.  America By Design: Science, Technology, and The Rise of Corporate Capitalism.  New York: Knopf, 1977.

Norberg, Arthur.  Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Nye, David E.  Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

O'Malley, Michale.  Keeping Watch: A History of American Time. New York: Viking, 1990.

Patnode, Randall.  “‘What These People Need Is Radio’: New Technology, the Press, and Otherness in 1920s America.”  Technology and Culture 44 (April 2003), 285–305.

Patten, Dave.  Newspapers and New Media.  White Plains: Knowledge Industries Publications, 1986.

Poehner, Lester L., Jr.  "The Future's Not What it Used to Be: The Decline of Technological Enthusiasm in America."  PhD dissertation, Iowa State University, 1999.

Poster, Mark.  Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Purcell, Carroll W.  The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Purcell, Carroll W. Technology in Postwar America: A History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Rabinovitz, Lauren, and Abraham Geil.  Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

Reich, Leonard S.  The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at G.E. and Bell, 1876-1926.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Risley, Ford. “Newspapers and Timeliness: The Impact of the Telegraph and the Internet.” American Journalism 17, no. 4 (2000): 97–103.

Rochlin, Gene I.  Trapped in the Net: The Unintended Consequences of Computerization.   Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Shurkin, Joel.  Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors.  New York: Norton, 1996.

Silverman, Kenneth.  Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel B. Morse.  New York: Knopf, 2003.

Simon, Linda.  Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray.  Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.

Sterling, Christopher H., ed.  Electronic Media: A Guide to Trends in Broadcasting and Newer Technologies, 1920-1983.  New York: Praeger, 1984.

Sterling, Christopher H., Phyllis W. Bernt, and Martin Weiss.  Shaping American Telecommunications: A History of Technology, Policy, and Economics.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

Sturken, Marita, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, eds.  Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.

Wasserman, Neil H.  From Invention to Innovation: Long Distance Telephone Transmission at the Turn of the Century.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Westwick, Peter J.  The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Whitehouse, George E.  Understanding the New Technology of the Mass Media.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1986.

Wurlitzer, Steve J.  "The Social Construction of Technological Change: American Mass Media and the Advent of Electrical Sound Technology."  PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 2001.

Wurtzler, Steve J.  Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 

Yates, JoAnne.  Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.