Progress of the Century from C & I

Telegraph

• "medium is the message" = McLuhan's theory: media are extensions of man; instantaneous ("make happen") not reflective ("make aware"); they integrate and involve
  
• medium also becomes monopoly = H. Sibley's Western Union 1856 vs. C. Field's American Telegraph 1858
• Atlantic cable first laid 1858 but failed until 1866
• Bennett's AP 1866; E. Cornell's monopoly contract 1867
  
• Samuel Morse