David Hochfelder
Contributor
BIOGRAPHY
Associate Professor of History, University at Albany, State University of New York. Author of The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920.
Primary Contributions (1)
Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments, during a life lived in Canada and the United States, were the invention of the telephone (patented in 1876) and the refinement of the phonograph (patented in 1886). Alexander (“Graham” was not…
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Publications (1)
The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) (October 2016)
Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 examines the correlation between technological innovation and social change and shows how this transformative relationship helps us to understand and perhaps define modernity. \nThe...
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