Geoffrey Hubbard

Cooke and Wheatstone

And the Invention of the Electric Telegraph

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was founded, and the curious route by which it came to England. It discusses the way in which two such antagonistic men were driven into collaboration and sets out the history of the early telegraph lines, including work on the London and Birmingham Railway and the Great Western Railway.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780415846783
• ISBN-10: 0415846781
• Artikelnr.: 37087055

Autorenporträt

GEOFFREY HUBBARD

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Speculative Fancy. 2 Three Precursors. 3 Professor Charles
Wheatstone. 4 William Fothergill Cooke. 5 The Partnership. 6 A
Practical Electric Telegraph. 7 The Patent. 8 From Paddington to West
Drayton. 9 The Blackwall Rope. 10 The Seeds of Discord. 11 West
Drayton to Slough. 12 The Advertisement of Murder. 13 The Embittered
Achievement. 14 The Authorship of the Practical Electric Telegraph.
15 The Later Life of Charles Wheatstone. 16 The Later Life of William
Fothergill Cooke. 17 The Passing of the Telegraph