Gillian Cookson's Telegraphy Bibliography
Reproduced by kind permission of Dr. Cookson, co-author of:
A Victorian Scientist and Engineer:
Fleeming
Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering
and author of
The Cable: The Wire That Changed
The World
| Author | Publisher | Subject | Title | Journal | Vol | Pages | Topic | Source/notes | Date |
| Adley, Charles C. | tele | The electric telegraph: its history, theory and practical applications | Mins of Proceedings of Inst Civil Eng | XI | 299-388 | 1851-2 | |||
| Adley, Charles C. | Calcutta | sub | Anglo-Indian Telegraphs | Calc 1854 | |||||
| Allan, T. | polit | Reasons for the government annexing an electric telegraph system to the General Post Office | The Electrician | 1/4 | 70-1 | & others by Allen, The Electrician 1861-3 | a 1863 | ||
| Allen, C. | polit | Telegraph Cases decided in the Courts of America, Great Britain and Ireland | a 1873 | ||||||
| Anderson, Sir J. | tele | Some Observations upon the sources of error in practical telegraphy | a 1878 | ||||||
| Anderson, Sir James | Statistics of Telegraphy | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society | XXXV | 272-327 | (III) 1872 | ||||
| Anderson, Sir James | London, 1868 | Existing and projected telegraphic routes to India considered | In Ronalds library, IEE, ref P70/12. | ||||||
| Andrews, H.H. | co | English Electric Co., 1883-1950 | nk | ||||||
| Anon | F.E.Bording | The Great Northern Telegraph Company: an outline of the company's history, 1869-1969 | Cable and Wireless archives. | Copenhagen, 1969 | |||||
| Anon | Criticism of H.M.Field's history of the Atlantic cable | Southern Review | 49-50 | Coates and Finn. Sept 96 | July 1867 | ||||
| Anon | Postal Telegraphs | Edinburgh Review | ?269 | 209-49 | July 1870 | ||||
| Anon | Eastern Telegraph Co Ltd | International Telegraphs: Statistics: submarine cables of the world, telegraph and cable companies | Cable and Wireless archives. | London, 1902 | |||||
| Anon | NY | The Atlantic Telegraph: an authentic history of that great work: with biographies, maps, etc | Dedicated to Field. Reference from list in Ronalds library, IEE. | nd | |||||
| Ansted, David Thomas | sub | The Bottom of the Atlantic and the first laying of the Electric Telegraph Cable | Geologist | Not at IEE | a 1860 | ||||
| Appleyard, Rollo | biog net | Pioneers of Electrical Communication | a 1930 | ||||||
| Appleyard, Rollo | IEE | History of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1871-1931 | London 1939 | ||||||
| Arnold, A.J. | Should historians trust late nineteenth-century company financial statements? | Business History | v 38 | 40-54 | a1995 | ||||
| Atherton, W.A. | elec | From Compass to Computer: a history of electrical and electronics engineering | San Francisco 1984 | ||||||
| Atlantic Telegraph Co | Chart of soundings and sections | Ronalds Library, IEE. Charts only. | a 1858 | ||||||
| Atlantic Telegraph Co | Jarrold and Sons | sub | The Atlantic Telegraph: a history of preliminary experimental proceedingsand a descriptive account of the present state and prospects of the undertaking | Ronalds Library, IEE. (Is this the same as R.J.Mann?) | London 1857 | ||||
| Atlantic Telegraph Co. | sub | The Atlantic Telegraph: its history from the commencement of the undertaking, in 1854, to the sailing of the Gt Eastern in 1866 | At IEE; also BT Archives | a 1866 | |||||
| Atlanticus | sub | Plans for depositing the Electric Telegraph on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean | Not at IEE | a 1858 | |||||
| Baglehole, K.C. | the firm | co | A century of service: a brief history of Cable and Wireless Ltd., 1868-1968 | 54 | a 1969 | ||||
| Bain, A | Mr Joseph Whitworth's special report, presented to the House Feb 6, 1854 | Ch.xi, p.28, Electric Tele. (report is headed NY Industrial Exhibition): ref from Ronalds list, IEE | as above | ||||||
| Bain, A. | polit | Petition against the Electric Telegraph Company Bill | a 1846 | ||||||
| Baker, W.J. | co | A History of the Marconi Co | a 1970 | ||||||
| Banbury, Lawrence G. | co | A history of cable-making at Helsby factory | BICC | a 1978 | |||||
| Barty-King, Hugh | Heinemann | co | Girdle Round the Earth: the story of Cable and Wireless | a 1979 | |||||
| Bijker, W.E. & Law, J. | HistTech | Shaping Technology/ Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change | Camb., Mass 1992 | ||||||
| Bijker, W.E., Hughes,T. & Pitch, T.(eds.) | HistTech | The Social Construction of Technological Systems | Camb., Mass 1989 | ||||||
| Bijker, Wiebe E. | Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs: Toward a theory of sociotechnical change | Camb, Mass 1995 | |||||||
| Black, Robert M. | Science Museum | elec | Electric Cables in Victorian Times | a 1972 | |||||
| Blondheim, Menachem | tele info | News over the Wires: the telegraph and the flow of public information in America, 1844-1897 | Camb, Mass 1994 | ||||||
| Blundell, J.Wagstaff | Rixon and Arnold | The manual of Submarine Telegraph Companies | Ronalds Library, IEE, ref. P70/18. | London 1871 | |||||
| Blundell, J.Wagstaff | Effingham Wilson | Telegraph Companies Considered as Investments, with remarks on the superior advantages of submarine cables | 22 | Ronalds library, IEE, ref P70/13. | London, 1869 | ||||
| Bond, B.R. | The handbook of the telegraph... [for clerks and candidates for employment in the tele] | Ronalds library, IEE, ref P86/3 | a 1864 | ||||||
| Bowers, Brian | biog net innov | Sir Charles Wheatstone, FRS, 1802-1875 | a 1975 | ||||||
| Brett, John Watkins | On the submarine telegraph | Proceedings of the Royal Institution | II | 394-403 | 20 Mar 1857 | ||||
| Brett, John Watkins | sub | On the Origin and Progress of the Oceanic Telegraph, with a few brief facts and opinions of the press | In Ronalds library, IEE. | a 1858 | |||||
| Briggs, Charles F. & Maverick, Augustus | sub | The story of the telegraph and history of the Atlantic Cable | NY, 1858 | ||||||
| Bright, Charles | sub | The story of the Atlantic Cable | a 1903 | ||||||
| Bright, Charles | sub | Submarine Telegraphs: their history, construction and working | Also at BT Archives; large book. | London 1898 | |||||
| Bright, Edward B. & Charles | Constable | sub biog net | The Life Story of Sir Charles Tilson Bright, Civil Engineer | 2 vols | 478 | Atlantic Telegraph Co | At BT Archives | nd | |
| Brooks, William Collin | privately published | co | The History of Johnson and Phillips: a romance of seventy five years | London 1950 | |||||
| Byatt, Ian C.R. | ind | The British Electrical Industry, 1875-1914: the economic returns to a new technology | Oxford 1979 | ||||||
| Cain, R.J. | tele info | Telegraph Cables in the British Empire, 1850-1900 | Duke 1971 | ||||||
| Callender's | the firm | co | The Story of Callender's, 1882-1932 | C.Cable & Construction: BICC. Copy at BusHistU | a 1932 | ||||
| Cantor, Geoffrey N. | biog net | Michael Faraday: Sandeman and Scientist: a study of science and religion in the nineteenth century | a 1991 | ||||||
| Carey, J.W. | HistTech | Technology and Ideology: the case of the telegraph | Prospects* | 1/9 | 303-25 | *the annual (?) of American Cultural Studies | Prospectus? | a 1984 | |
| Carlson, W.Bernard | CUP | HistTech | Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900 | a 1991 | |||||
| Carter, Samuel | G.P.Putnam's Sons, NY | biog net | Cyrus Field, man of two worlds | NY 1968 | |||||
| Chapple, J.A.V. and Pollard, Arthur (eds) | Manchester Univ Press | The letters of Mrs Gaskell | Man 1966 | ||||||
| Clark, Latimer | [series of scientific papers - also tables for inspectors and operators -see photocopied list] | Ref in Ronalds library, IEE. | |||||||
| Clarke, Arthur C. | tele | Voice across the Sea | 2nd ed 1974 | ||||||
| Clarke, Courtenay | W.L.Webb | The Public Telegraph Companies (with chart) | Cable and Wireless archives. | London 1869 | |||||
| Coates, Vary T. & Finn, Bernard | San Francisco Press Inc | sub HistTech | A retrospective technology assessment: submarine telegraphy, the transatlantic cable of 1866 | SF 1979 | |||||
| Colvin, Sidney & Ewing, J.A. (eds) | Longmans, Green and Co | Papers Literary, Scientific, &c by the late Fleeming Jenkin | 2 vols | London 1887 | |||||
| Constable, Thomas | Edinburgh, 1877 | Memoir of Lewis Gordon, FRSE, late Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics in the University of Glasgow | |||||||
| Crawley, Chetwode | tele | From telegraphy to television | c.1931 | ||||||
| Crompton Parkinson and Co. | co | Foundations of the Electrical Industry | c.1929 | ||||||
| Culley, R.S. | A Handbook of Practical Telegraphy | Ronalds Library, IEE, ref B III 35,36 | 1863 to 1871 | ||||||
| de Cogan, D. | sub | Dr E.O.W.Whitehouse and the 1858 transatlantic cable | History of Technology | X | a 1985 | ||||
| de Marcoartu, A. | sub | Universal Telegraphic Enterprise: Telegraphic Submarine lines between Europe and America and the Atlantic and Pacific | 55 | Bern Dibner, The Atlantic Cable (1964) p.177. | a 1863 | ||||
| Dibner, Bern | Norwalk | sub | The Atlantic Cable | Blaisdell, N.Y. 1964 | |||||
| Dodwell, R. | An illustrated handbook to the Electric Telegraph | Ronalds library, IEE, ref P86/1 | c.1861 | ||||||
| Dumas, F. | polit | Traite de Telegraphie Electrique militaire | a 1869 | ||||||
| Dumbell, Stanley | The origin of cotton futures | Economic History | I | 259-67 | a 1929 | ||||
| Durham, John F.L. | Golden Head Press | tele | Telegraphs in Victorian London | 30 | Universal Private Telegraph Co. | Camb 1959 | |||
| Eastern Associated Telegraph Co. | the firm | co | Fifty Years of 'Via Eastern': Jubilee of the Eastern Associated Telegraph Co. 1922 | 203 | a 1922 | ||||
| Edge, David | The Social Shaping of Technology | ||||||||
| Fahie, J.J. | tele | A History of Electric Telegraphy to the year 1837 | Copy at BT Archives | a 1884 | |||||
| Field, Henry Martyn | biog net | Cyrus W.Field | nd | ||||||
| Field, Henry Martyn | sub | The History of the Atlantic Telegraph to the return of the expedition of 1865 | Important. In Cable and Wireless archive. | NY 1866-7 | |||||
| Field, Henry Martyn | Gay and Bird | sub | The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph | 415 | NY 1893 | ||||
| Finn, Bernard S (ed) | Arno Press | Development of submarine cable communications | Cable and Wireless archives. Reprints sections of some rare works. | NY 1980 | |||||
| Finn, Bernard S. | sub | Submarine Telegraphy, the grand Victorian technology | a 1973 | ||||||
| Finn, Bernard S., Friedel, Robert | elec innov | Edison's Electric Light: biography of an invention | a 1986 | ||||||
| Fleming, John Ambrose | tele | The principles of electric wave telegraphy and telephony | 2nd ed 1910 | ||||||
| Foreman-Peck, James | Competition, Co-operation and Nationalisation in the nineteenth century telegraph system | Business History | 3/31 | 81-102 | a 1989 | ||||
| Foreman-Peck, James & Millward, Robert | Clarendon | ind polit | Public and Private Ownership of British Industry, 1820-1900 | network industries | Oxford 1994 | ||||
| Furneaux, Rupert | Cassell | The First War Correspondent: William Howard Russell of The Times | BIBLIOG G 6.29 RUS | London 1944 | |||||
| Garnham, S.A. | S.Low, Marston & Co., London 1934 | The submarine cable: the story of the sub tele cable from its invention down to modern times... | At Burndy Library | ||||||
| Garratt, Gerald R.M. | Sc. Museum? | sub | One hundred years of submarine cables | London 1950 | |||||
| Goldsmid, Col.Sir Frederic John | Telegraph and Travel | re. Indian tele. Copy at BT archives. | a 1874 | ||||||
| Gooday, Graeme | elec | Faraday reinvented: moral imagery and institutional icons in Victorian electrical engineering | History of Technology | XIV | a 1993 | ||||
| Gooding, David & James, Frank A.J.L.(eds | biog net | Faraday: Rediscovered: essays on the life and work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867 | a 1985 | ||||||
| Gooding, David et al | HistTech | The Uses of Experiment | Camb 1989 | ||||||
| Goodsall, Walter | Notes on submarine telegraph cable work: grappling | Original at NMM. | nd | ||||||
| Gorman, Mel | tele | Sir William O'Shaughnessy, Lord Dalhousie and the establishment of the telegraph system in India | Technology and Culture | 1/12 | 581-601 | a 1971 | |||
| Haigh, Kenneth R. | sub | Cable Ships and submarine cables | a 1968 | ||||||
| Harris, Robert Dalton | Schoharie, NY c1994 | The transcendental cable: an Atlantic telegraph | In Burndy Library | ||||||
| Headrick, Daniel R. | Oxford UP | The Invisible Weapon: telecommunications and international politics, 1851-1945 | MOD HIST C-60 HEA. | a 1991 | |||||
| Heimann, P.M. | biog net | James Clerk Maxwell: his sources and influence | |||||||
| Hempstead, C.A. | Jenkin | An appraisal of Fleeming Jenkin (1833-1885), electrical engineer | History of Technology | 1/13 | a 1991 | ||||
| Hempstead, C.A. | Jenkin | The early years of oceanic telegraphy: technology, science and politics | IEE Proceedings | A 136 | 297-305 | November 1989 | |||
| Hempstead, C.A. | Jenkin | A remarkable man: Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | IEE Review | May 1992 | |||||
| Hempstead, C.A. | Jenkin | Telpherage and problems of innovation | IEE Proceedings | A140 | 197-205 | May 1993 | |||
| Hempstead, Colin A. | Representations of transatlantic telegraphy | Engineering Science and Educ Journal | S17-25 | Dec.1995 | |||||
| Hempstead, Colin A. | The Life and Work of Fleeming Jenkin, 1833-85 | ? | |||||||
| Hempstead, Colin A. | Control Systems and Fleeming Jenkin's 'telpherage' | ? | |||||||
| Hennessy, Roger A.S. | ind | The Electric Revolution | a 1972 | ||||||
| Herbert, Thomas E. | tele | Telegraphy: a detailed exposition of the telegraph system of the British Post Office | 2nd ed. 1907 | ||||||
| Highton, Edward | Consideration of the probability of the success of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable | Ronalds Library, IEE. | a 1857 | ||||||
| Highton, Edward | tele | The Electric Telegraph: its history and progress | Cable and Wireless archive; also IEE, Ronalds library. | a 1852 | |||||
| Hirst, Hugo | co | Two autobiographical fragments | Business History | XXVIII | GEC | a 1986 | |||
| Hubbard, Geoffrey | biog innov net | Cooke and Wheatstone and the invention of the electric telegraph | a 1965 | ||||||
| Hubbard, W.Hustace | D.Appleton & Co, NY | Cotton and the Cotton Market | a1927 | ||||||
| Huebner, S.S. | The functions of produce exchanges | Annals AmAcadPolit & Soc Science | a38 | 319-53 | Coates and Finn. Sept 96 | a1911 | |||
| Hughes, Thomas P. | Johns Hopkins UP | HistTech | Networks of Power: electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 | Baltimore 1983 | |||||
| Hunt, B.J. | tele | The Ohm is where the Art is: British telegraph engineers and the development of electrical standards | Osiris | 1/9 | 48-63 | a 1994 | |||
| Hunt, Bruce J. | Scientists, engineers and WIldman Whitehouse: measurement and credibility in early cable telegraphy | BJHS 1996 vol 29 | 155-69 | ||||||
| Hunter, Philip V. & Hazell, James Temple | George Newnes | elec | Development of Power Cables | a 1956 | |||||
| Inkster, I. & Morrell, J. (eds.) | Pennsylvania U.P. | net innov | Metropolis and Province: science in British culture, 1780-1850 | a 1983 | |||||
| Israel, Paul | Johns Hopkins U.P. | innov ind tele | From machine shop to industrial laboratory: telegraphy and the changing context of American invention, 1830-1920 | Baltimore 1992 | |||||
| Israel, Paul and Nier, Keith | The transfer of telegraph technologies in the 19th c | 95-121 | Aldershot 1991 | ||||||
| James, Frank A.J.L. | net | The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, 1811-31 & 1832-40 | 1 & 2 | Stevenage 1991-3 | |||||
| Jaras, Thomas | Promoters and Public Servants: the role of the British Government in the expansion of submarine telegraphy | Coates and Finn. Sept 96 | a1975 | ||||||
| Jeans, William T. | biog | Lives of the Electricians: Professors Tyndall, Wheatstone and Morse. | a 1887 | ||||||
| Jenkin, F. | Precis of a lecture on the construction of Telegraphic lines, delivered by FJ 2 Jan 1863, written from lecturer's notes by C.S.Beauchamp... | 18 | Ronalds library, IEE | ||||||
| Johnston, Robert W. | polit | The Telegraph and its proposed acquisition by the Government | Edinburgh 1867 | ||||||
| Judson, Isabella Field | biog net | Cyrus W.Field, his life and work | Not at IEE | a 1896 | |||||
| Kelly, Francis V. | net | The electrical community in early 19th c. England, with special ref to W.Sturgeon | OU BPhil: Prof C.A.Russell/Dr J.M.Moore | In progress | |||||
| Kieve, Jeffrey L. | David and Charles | tele | Electric Telegraph: a social and economic history | Elec Tele Co | a 1973 | ||||
| Kieve, Jeffrey L. | tele | The Telegraph Industry, 1837-90 | May 1905 | ||||||
| Lardner, Dr | The Electric Telegraph | Copy at BT Archive | a 1867 | ||||||
| Latour, B. | Princeton | HistTech | Laboratory Life: the social construction of scientific facts | a 1986 | |||||
| Lauridsen, Cartsen R. | How the telegraph broke the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association | ?Harvard Business Review | 1989/1990? | ||||||
| Lawford, G.L. & Nicholson, L.R. (eds) | co | The Telcon Story, 1850-1950 | Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. | a 1950 | |||||
| Lehnert, Josef | tele | Introduction to telegraph engineering | c.1967 | ||||||
| MacKenzie, D. | HistTech | Inventing Accuracy | Camb Mass 1990 | ||||||
| Mackenzie, Donald A. & Wajcman, J. | HistTech | Social Shaping of Technology | see chs. by Cynthia Cockburn | ||||||
| Mann, R.J. | sub | The Atlantic Telegraph, a history of experimental proceedings | At IEE | a 1857 | |||||
| Marland, Edward A. | elec | Early Electrical Communication | a 1964 | ||||||
| Marriner, Sheila | Liverpool Univ Press | Rathbones of Liverpool, 1845-73 | Econ G 0.062 MAR. | a 1961 | |||||
| Marsh, Arthur | Cotton Exchanges and their economic functions | Annals Am.Acad.Polit&Soc Science | a38 | Coates & Finn. Sept 1996 | a 1911 | ||||
| Marvin, Caroline | HistTech | When Old Technologies were New: thinking about electric communication in the late nineteenth century | Oxford 1988 | ||||||
| McClenachan, C.T. | Edmund Jones & Co, NY | Detailed report if the Proceedings held in Commemoration of the Successful Laying of the Atlantic Cable 1858 | Coates and Finn. Sept 96. Dibner Inst. | a 1863 | |||||
| McLynn, Frank | Robert Louis Stevenson: a biography | London 1993 | |||||||
| Mitcham, Carl | HistTech | Thinking through technology: the path between engineering and technology | a 1994 | ||||||
| Montefiore, Sidney | polit | Electric Telegraph Reform: being a plan for a combination of the Telegraph with the Post Office | a 1866 | ||||||
| Morgan, Robert M. | BICC Plc | co | Callender's, 1882-1945 | Prescot 1982 | |||||
| Morrell, Jack & Thackray A. eds. | net | Gentlemen of Science: early years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science | |||||||
| Morrell, Jack & Thackray, A. eds. | Camden 4th series | net | Gentlemen of Science: early correspondence of the British Association for the Advancement of Science | 1/30 | |||||
| Morris, Susan W. | Jenkin | Fleeming Jenkin and The Origin of Species: a reassessment | BJHS | 1/27 | 313-43 | a 1994 | |||
| Mullaly, J. | sub | Trips to Newfoundland, etc., with an account of the laying of the cable | a 1865 | ||||||
| Mullaly, John | D.Appleton and Company | sub | The Laying of the Cable, or the ocean telegraph; being a complete and authentic narrative... | At BT. Re Gulf of St Lawrence 1855 and 3 Atlantic expeditions. Also at IEE (Ronalds) and Burndy. | NY 1858 | ||||
| Nathan, Adele Gutman | Random House, NY, 1959 | The first transatlantic cable | At Burndy Library | ||||||
| Newall, R.S. | Wm Clowes and Sons | Observations on the present condition of Telegraphs in the Levant... | Ronalds library, IEE, ref. P246/8 | London 1860 | |||||
| Newall, R.S. | E. & F.N.Spon | Facts and Observations relating to the invention of the submarine cable and to the manufacture and laying of the first cable between Dover and Calais... | Science Museum Library. | London 1882 | |||||
| Nye, David E. | HistTech | Electrifying America: social meanings of a new technology | Camb Mass 1991 | ||||||
| Nye, David E. | biog | The Invented Self | |||||||
| Pacey, Arnold | HistTech | Technology in World Civilisation: a thousand year history | a 1990 | ||||||
| Parkinson, J.C. | Blackwood | The Ocean Telegraph to India: a narrative and a diary | At BT Archives. Ref from Cain thesis | Edinburgh 1870 | |||||
| Payne, P.L. | The emergence of the large-scale company in Great Britain, 1870-1914 | EcHR | XX, 3 | 519-41 | December 1967 | ||||
| Ponsinet, P. | polit | La Telegraphie Militaire: son Role pendant le Siege de Paris | a 1872 | ||||||
| Post Office Telegraphs | polit | Copies of Letters and Minutes showing the steps which have been taken by the Post Office to give effect to the provisions of the Telegraph Act, 1868 | 3 pts | ||||||
| Preece, W.H. | Telegraphy: its rise and progress in England | At BT Archives. | a 1872 | ||||||
| Read, Donald | Oxford UP, 1992 | The Power of News: the history of Reuters, 1849-1989 | a 1992 | ||||||
| Rees, Jim | Dee-Jay Publications | The Life of Captain Robert Halpin | Cable and Wireless archives. ILL | Arklow, Eire 1992 | |||||
| Reid, James D. | Derby Bros | tele | The Telegraph in America: its founders, promoters and noted men | Cable and Wireless archive. | NY 1879 | ||||
| Renton, Robert N. | tele | Telegraphy | a 1976 | ||||||
| Rowett, William | sub | The Ocean Telegraph Cable: its construction, regulation and submersion explained | Ronalds library, IEE, ref F IV/36 | a 1865 | |||||
| Rowett, William | Charles Wilson | sub | The new submarine telegraph cable: the regulation of its specific gravity [etc] | Ronalds library, IEE, ref E V21/4 | London 1858 | ||||
| Russell, W.H. | David and Charles | sub | The Atlantic Telegraph | 1972 [1865] | |||||
| Sabine, Robert | The Electric Telegraph | At BT Archives. Technical. Also at Ronalds library, IEE. | a 1867 | ||||||
| Sabine, Robert | The History and Progress of the Electric Telegraph | At Ronalds library, IEE | a 1869 | ||||||
| Sakamoto, T. | Technology and Business in the British Electrical Industry, 1880-1914 | Proc Fuji Int Conf on Business History | 1974? | ||||||
| Sampson, Anthony | co polit | The Sovereign State: the secret history of ITT | a 1973 | ||||||
| Sanderson, M. | R & KP | net | The Universities and British Industry, 1850-1970 | a 1972 | |||||
| Saward, George | sub | Deep-sea Telegraphs: their past history and future progress | Mechanics Magazine | 46-8 | a 1861 | ||||
| Saward, George | sub | The Transatlantic Submarine Telegraph: a brief narrative of the principal incidents in the history of the Atlantic Telegraph Company... | BT Archives copy, with notes by Edward Bright re downgrading of Charles Bright's work - in 19th c accounts file. | London 1878 | |||||
| Scott, J.D. | co | Siemens Brothers, 1858-1958 | a 1958 | ||||||
| Scott, James Maurice | Benn | co | Extel 100: the centenary history of the Exchange Telegraph Co. | 239 | London 1972 | ||||
| Scott, John and Griff, Catherine | Polity Press | Directors of Industry: the British Corporate Network, 1904-76 | London 1984 | ||||||
| Scowen, F. | sub | Transoceanic submarine telegraphy | Trans Newcomen Soc | 2/17 | 1-10 | 1976-7 | |||
| Scudamore, Frank Ives | polit | Electric Telegraphs: Reports upon the proposal for transferring to the Post Office | a 1868 | ||||||
| Shaffner, Taliaferro P. | The Telegraph Manual | pp851 | At BT Archives. Also Shaffner's Telegraph Companion, 1854, Amer journal mainly re Morse's telegraph. | NY 1859 | |||||
| Slater, Ernest | the firm | co | One Hundred Years, 1837-1937: the history of Henley's | Henley's telegraph works/ GEC | a 1937 | ||||
| Sloan, Norton Q., Jr. | William Thomson's inventions for the submarine telegraph industry: a 19th century technology program | Harvard 1996 | |||||||
| Smith, Crosbie W. & Wise, M.Norton | CUP | biog net | Energy and Empire: a biographical study of Lord Kelvin | Camb 1989 | |||||
| Smith, George Barnett | Hodder and Stoughton | The Life and Speeches of the Right Honourable John Bright, M.P. | London 1882 | ||||||
| Smith, Merritt Roe & Marx, Leo (eds.) | HistTech | Does Technology drive History? the dilemma of technological determinism | |||||||
| Smith, W. | Arno Press, NY, 1974 | sub | The rise and extension of submarine telegraphy | At BT Archives. | 1891/1974 | ||||
| Smith, Willoughby | The working of long submarine cables | Paper read before the Society of Tele Engineers. Copy at Cable and Wireless | 12 Feb 1879 | ||||||
| Squier, George O. | The influence of submarine cables upon military and naval supremacy | National Geographic Magazine | 12(1) | 1-12 | Ref from Headrick. | January 1901 | |||
| Standard Telephones and Cables | the firm | co | The Story of STC, 1883-1958 | a 1958 | |||||
| Stephen, John | polit | The Transference of the Telegraphs to the State | a 1868 | ||||||
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Jenkin | Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin | IX | 165-303 | See also papers, ed. S.Colvin and J.A.Ewing. | London 1911 | |||
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Talk and Talkers | IX | 89-90 | London 1911 | |||||
| Stones, Frank | The British Ferrous Wire Industry, 1882-1962 | 7-8 | Sheffield 1977 | ||||||
| Stray, J.F. | Regency | co | Inside an International: forty years with Cable and Wireless | a 1982 | |||||
| Submarine Cables | the firm | co | The Story of the Submarine Cable | nd | |||||
| Tann, Jennifer | Space, Time and Innovation characteristics: the contribution of diffusion process theory to the history of technology | History of Technology | 1/17 | 143-63 | a 1995 | ||||
| Van Choate, S.F. | Ocean Telegraphing: adaptation of new principles for the successful working of submarine cables etc | Book in Cable and Wireless archives. | Camb Mass 1865 | ||||||
| Varley, C.F. | The phenomena of the Atlantic and other long cables | The Engineer | 169-70 | 22 Feb 1867 | |||||
| Varley, C.F. | [various short works on long cables etc] | Ronalds library, IEE, ref P200/8 | |||||||
| von Siemens, Ernt Werner, 1816-92 | innov biog net | Inventor and Entrepreneur: recollections of Werner von Siemens | 2nd Eng. ed. 1966 | ||||||
| Ward, W.H. | sub | The Ocean Marine Telegraph, illustrated | Peddies. Not in IEE. | a 1862 | |||||
| Wells, David Ames | polit | The Relation of the Government to the Telegraph | Peddie.. | a 1873 | |||||
| West, Charles | The Story of my Life, by the Submarine Telegraph | At BT Archives | a 1859 | ||||||
| West, Graham | CUP | HistTech | Innovation and the Rise of the tunnelling industry | ||||||
| Whitehead, Eric S. | biog net | A short account of the life and work of Joseph Fahie | Liverpool 1939 | ||||||
| Whitehouse, Edward Orange Wildman | sub | The Atlantic Telegraph, the rise, progress and development of its electrical department | Not in IEE cat. | a 1858 | |||||
| Wilson, J.F. | ind | The Ferrantis and the Growth of the Electrical Industry, 1882-1914 | |||||||
| Wilson, Roger Burdett (ed.) | David and Charles | Sir Daniel Gooch: Memoirs and Diary | via British Library. | Newton Abbott 1972 | |||||
| Window, F.R. | sub | The Atlantic and South Atlantic Telegraphs | Not in IEE | a 1859 | |||||
| Young, Peter | Allen and Unwin | co | Power of Speech: a history of Standard Telephones and Cables | a 1983 |
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