Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Tables vii
4. Introduction: Inventing American Telecommunications 1
5. 1. Making a Neighborhood of a Nation 5
6. 2. Professor Morse’s Lightning 24
7. 3. Antimonopoly 65
8. 4. The New Postalic Dispensation 114
9. 5. Rich Man’s Mail 156
10. 6. The Talking Telegraph 200
11. 7. Telephomania 238
12. 8. Second Nature 269
13. 9. Gray Wolves 311
14. 10. Universal Ser vice 340
15. 11. One Great Medium? 370
16. Epilogue: The Technical Millennium 407
17. Chronology of American Telecommunications 415
18. Notes 425
19. Acknowledgments 501
20. Index 505