 | Daniel J. Czitrom - 1982 - 276 pages
...barbarism." Universal peace and harmony seem at this time more possible than ever before, as the telegraph "binds together by a vital cord all the nations of...exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth."12 Just as the telegraph promised "a revolution in moral grandeur," the instrument itself seemed... | |
 | James W. Carey - 1992 - 258 pages
...the free and unobstructed interchange of each with all. How potent a power, then, is the telegraph destined to become in the civilization of the world!...exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth (Briggs and Maverick, 1858: 21-22). In another work of the era, Sir William P. Andrews, justifying... | |
 | Peter Ludlow - 2001 - 514 pages
...recall similarly dizzy responses to the invention of telegraphy in the middle of the last century. "It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities...of thought between all the nations of the earth," wrote Charles Briggs and Augustus Maverick, in 1858.2' But Negroponte, who likes to scandalize the... | |
 | Hassan, Robert, Thomas, Julian - 2006 - 358 pages
...the free and unobstructed interchange of each with all. How potent a power, then, is the telegraph destined to become in the civilization of the world!...exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth (Briggs and Maverick, 1858: 21-22). In another work of the era, Sir William P. Andrews, justifying... | |
 | Paul Young - 2006 - 350 pages
...authors of an 1858 history of the telegraph, for example, claimed that the new machine intrinsically "binds together by a vital cord all the nations of...been created for an exchange of thought between all nations of the earth" (Czitrom, 10). Marvin quotes an 1885 Electrical Review speculation about the... | |
 | Richard Menke - 2008 - 344 pages
...the laying of the first transatlantic cable ("the greatest event in the present century"), it was now "impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should...instrument has been created for an exchange of thought." Indeed, they predict that "now the great work is complete, the whole earth will be belted with the... | |
 | John Trumpbour - 2007 - 402 pages
...perpetual peace. With the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858, Victorian boosters proclaimed: "It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities...exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all nations of the earth." Later proponents of radio touted its pacific... | |
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It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for an exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth (Briggs and Maverick, 1858: 21-22). 