The Taming of Distance - New Zealand's First International Telecommunications
Language: English
Published by Dunmore Publishing, 2005
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New ZealandPhoenix Books NZ
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The Taming of Distance - New Zealand's First International Telecommunications by Elisabeth Airey. Publisher: Dunmore Publishing, 2005. Good softback, crease to covers, two pages have a small abrasion to corner where they had been stuck together at edge, a couple of pages have some underlining. 187 pages, illustrated. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand. On 19 February 1876, New Zealand became telegraphically linked to the world - it joined the international Victorian "internet". Contact with Sydney now took only seconds and London less than 24 hours. But unlike today when everybody is their own instant "telegraphist", in 1876 the system needed a small army of specially trained undersea cable operators. The Taming of Distance tells the story of those people - Englishmen, Australians and New Zealanders - who worked the cable, first from an isolated rural, coastal location near Nelson and later from Wellington central. But it is far from a narrow story of undersea telegraphy. It is set in the wider context of British ownership of the line, and interaction with the New Zealand Government and particularly the New Zealand Telegraph Department. It tells of a rapidly changing world of national and international telecommunications which, by the time the line closed in 1932, bore little resemblance to that of 1876. Above all, it tells how those men (and later, women) and their families, lived and worked as part of a unique international community. All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Taming of Distance - New Zealand's First International Telecommunications
- Author
- Elisabeth Airey
- Publisher
- Dunmore Publishing
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1877399027
- ISBN 13
- 9781877399022
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Phoenix Books NZ
Waimate, CANTE, New Zealand
AbeBooks seller since July 6, 2016
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