The impact of the railroad on American society: a communication perspective of technology

This manuscript examines the railroad system as a combination of humans and machines that form a symbiosis, and explains how the railroad exerted a huge effect on American life when it made irrelevant the organic – following nature – time system that existed in cities and countries where clocks were...

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Main Author: Matusitz, Jonathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo 2009-10-01
Series:PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural
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Online Access:http://www.pasosonline.org/Publicados/7309special/PS0309_9.pdf