Word: telegraph
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...once Disney has mostly succeeded in the game of subtlety, addressing tensions between the environment and industry. The three tall tale-ers have been living outside of modern progress. They stand bewildered in the face of encroaching industrialization. When Pecos hears about inventions like the telegraph and the light bulb, he is incredulous. "You're telling me a tall tale," he says to Daniel. With horror, Paul and John try to imagine a world run by machines...
...should recall that between the Renaissance and the 19th century Industrial Revolution, new communications technology, from the printing press to the telegraph, generally spurred mass political participation. True, today's Pollyannas could end up looking as foolish as the doomsayers of that era once did -- like Alfred Lord Tennyson, who gushed that the telegraph would result in ``war banners furled'' and a ``parliament of the world.'' Yet it is really our own century that has turned from enthusiasm for the benefits of science to a kind of techno-pessimism: instead of advancing participatory democracy, early radio and then television actually...
...State Police helicopter crashed through the Harvard Yacht Club building yesterday morning, killing all four passengers, including two state police troopers and two American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) employees who were working on a state contract...
Before his eyes, a State Police helicopter, locked in a tailspin, lurched to one side and smashed onto the roof of the two-story Harvard Yacht Club building, killing the two state police officers and two American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) employees on board...
Technologies ranging from the telegraph to the telephone, from typewriter to carbon paper have all made mass organization easier and cheaper. And since the 1960s, the technologies have unfolded relentlessly: computerized mass mailing, the personal computer and printer, the fax, the modem and increasingly supple software for keeping tabs on members or prospective members. The number of associations, both political and apolitical, has grown in lockstep with these advances. One bellwether -- the size of the American Society of Association Executives -- went from 2,000 in 1965 to 20,000 in 1990. As for sheerly political organizations: no one knows exactly...