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 wer...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo
2009-09-01
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| Series: | PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural |
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| Online Access: | http://ojsull.webs.ull.es/index.php/Revista/article/view/2479 |