Fari S. Victorian Telegraphy Before Nationalization

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 235 p.This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869. It shows a historical reconstruction mainly based on original and unedited documents belonging to a variety of archives.The Origins of the Telegraph Service.
Constitutive Choices.
From Monopoly to Free Competition.
The Duopoly.
The Triumph of the Oligopoly.
Nationalization.