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Title: @headrickSubmarineTelegraphCables2001 date: 2023-03-05 type: reference project:

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Reference

Headrick, DR and Griset, P. 2001 Submarine Telegraph Cables: Business and Politics, 1838-1939. The Business History Review 75(3): 543–578. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3116386. @headrickSubmarineTelegraphCables2001

Summary & Key Take Aways

In the paper titled Submarine Telegraph Cables(2001), Headrick analyzes the many different companies and their impact on the creation of the telegraph network. To build his argument, he looks at many different companies and how they all had an effect on the creation of telegraph lines. He does this to understand the power and dynamics between countries brought about because of the telegraph.

Another big aspect of the reading is the British Monopoly on the telegraph industry and their tactics to kill off any competetion.

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