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