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...Mary Fairclough This essay explores how the new technology of the optical telegraph provoked discussion of the possibilities of globalized communication in the 1790s. It focuses on the Telegraph , an anti-ministerial London newspaper. the Telegraph exploits its metaphorical connections...

... of the Enlightenment described in the introduction. They also, though, contribute to the excitement of This Is Enlightenment. For Eliason and Jacobsen, “What the telegraph shares with photography and the analog computer is not only that the information pro- cesses are automated, but also that their mode...

...- tions” accelerating transport and communications — steamships, and the tourism they permitted; railways; the telegraph; the telephone; the gramo- phone; and electric light among them — made the last fifty years seem a whole century. “The old, very old world” is partly also the Old World of Europe...

... of publications since, including some that celebrate or have been funded by the Society itself. I most recently encountered it in an article published 9 February 2008 in the online edition of Britain’s Daily Telegraph. The 140 Eighteenth-Century Life author was Richard Dorment, a member of the still...

... environmental degeneracy and about the politics of the young American republic, but the apparatus of the book's publication telegraphed the polemical motives behind it. The dedication to the Abbé Raynal, signed “J. Hector St. John, Carlisle in Pennsylvania,” invites “your genius to be present at the head of my...