By Jill Lepore Boats, trains, and telegraph wires — changes in transportation and communication — had surprising social and political effects.
Cusk was "looking from the window at a Hopper-esque landscape of freight trains and telegraph poles and feeling an entirely unfounded sense of optimism!" she e-mailed me gaily.
This requires both training and some organizing.
"There is something wonderful about Einstein invoking trains and telegraphs to get a transformation of space-time, Poincaré turning the Eiffel Tower into a radio," Dr. Galison said.
In the past two decades Hispanic migrants have spread from a few states and cities to places that had not seen big foreign inflows since the days of steam trains and telegraphs.
War had torn the United States apart, but trains and telegraphs promised to tie it together again: everywhere, technology was changing everything for the better, saving the Union, making us who we are.
Both telephone and telegraph cables were laid along the line.
Edison was always a hustler, selling vegetables and candy while tinkering with technologies in his spare moments in trains and in telegraph offices.
Western Electric had started as a telegraph manufacturing company but later became a major contributor to both the telephone and telegraph industries.
He glanced out the window of the train and saw the new telegraph wires.
