Search results for [Transatlantic cables] at NC Cardinal

Results 1 to 10 of 10

A thread across the ocean : the heroic story of the transatlantic cable / by Gordon, John Steele.(CARDINAL)195962;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Telegraph; Telegraph; Transatlantic cables;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

unAPI

Signal & noise / by Griesemer, John.(CARDINAL)663241;

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Transatlantic cables; Americans; Children; Spiritualists; Engineers; Telegraph; Children.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

Twist [large print] : a novel / by McCann, Colum,1965-author.(CARDINAL)391176;

"Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world's information. The sum of human existence--words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses--travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth. Fennell's journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress, Zanele, who must leave to go on her own literary adventure to London. When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel."--

Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Sea fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Journalists; Ocean; Truth; Fiber optic cables; Transatlantic cables; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Ocean;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8

unAPI

Cyrus Field's big dream : the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable / by Cowan, Mary Morton,author.(CARDINAL)810642;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index."Cyrus Field had a big dream to connect North America and the United Kingdom with a telegraph line, which would enable instant communication. In the mid-1800s, no one knew if it was possible. That didn't dissuade Cyrus, who set out to learn about undersea cables and built a network of influential people to raise money and create interest in his project. Cyrus experienced numerous setbacks: many years of delays and failed attempts, millions of dollars lost, suspected sabotage, technological problems, and more. But Cyrus did not give up and forged ahead, ultimately realizing his dream in the summer of 1866. Mary Morton Cowan brilliantly captures Cyrus's life and his steadfast determination to achieve his dream"--Amazon.com.980LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Biographies.; Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892; Transatlantic cables; Telegraph; Telegraph;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

After the guns fell silent : a post-Appomattox narrative, April 1865-March 1866 / by Hoehling, A. A.(Adolph A.),author.(CARDINAL)128114;

Includes bibliographical references.The twelve tumultuous months following the Civil War are vividly recounted in this compelling narrative history by one of America's leading historians. Author A. A. Hoehling's extensive research has uncovered a massive amount of fresh primary material- diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts- that sheds new light on how the lives of most Americans were affected by the war and its immediate aftermath. With the unerring knack of a natural storyteller, the author depicts a nation's titanic struggle to survive and rebuild in the face of almost insurmountable odds. The story moves swiftly through Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the tumult that it caused, the bungled search for Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes Booth, the capture of Jefferson Davis, Mary Surratt's trail and execution, a bitter oil strike in Pennsylvania, the attempt to lay the transatlantic cable, Robert E. Lee's horseback journey across Virginia to assume the presidency of Washington College, the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, and the rebuilding of the ravaged cities of Columbia, Charleston, and Atlanta.

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

unAPI

Essential words for the IELTS / by Lougheed, Lin,1946-(CARDINAL)748583; Barron's Educational Series, Inc.,editor.(CARDINAL)349878;

Subjects: Controlled vocabularies.; Textbooks.; Study guides.; English language; International English Language Testing System; English language;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

Hell before breakfast : America's first war correspondents making history and headlines from the battlefields of the Civil War to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire / by Patton, Robert H.(Robert Holbrook),1957-(CARDINAL)379123;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Nobody's child: 1854-1866 -- American methods: 1865-1870 -- Wild work: 1870-1871 -- Paris is burning: 1871 -- Primitive people: 1871-1873 -- Pure and savage freedom: 1872-1877 -- Red hands: 1876-1877 -- Green leaves in a furnace flame: 1877 -- The pause of an instant: 1877-1890 -- Our people: 1884-1912.It was the dawn of America's Gilded Age. Thanks to advances in the electric telegraph and the transatlantic cable, the reporters' dispatches were featured in daily newspapers that proliferated as never before on both sides of the Atlantic, driving public opinion and fueling political passions that wouldn't resolve until World War I. Inspired by history's first war correspondent, William H. Russell of The Times of London, they interpreted Russell's heartbreaking account of the Charge of Light Brigade not as tragedy but as grand adventure. Hard experience would teach them otherwise, yet the romance of their profession remained. Said one of them even after he'd lost his health, buried his friends, and seen the terrible truth of combat: "To have lived at the very heart of everything that was most sensational in those sensational days--what joy!" Their editors and newspaper owners treated them like cannon fodder, sending them repeatedly into harm's way to obtain the exclusive battlefield "beat," but the reporters didn't mind. Even in bitter competition they were a brotherhood above all. Hell Before Breakfast is their marvelous story.

Subjects: War correspondents; War;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

unAPI

The 100 most significant events in American business : an encyclopedia / by Skrabec, Quentin R.(CARDINAL)705582;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Privatization of the Plymouth Colony (1623) -- Navigation Acts (1651) -- Wealth of Nations (1776) -- Patent and copyright statutes (1790) -- "Report on manufacturing" (1791) -- Whiskey rebellion (1794) -- Jefferson embargo (1807) -- First steamboat to New Orleans (1811) -- National road (1811) -- Erie Canal (1825) -- Tariff of Abominations (1828) -- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1828) -- Whig Party evolves (1834) -- Panic of 1837 -- Automated sewing machine (1846) -- Revolution, famine, and immigration (1848) -- Clipper ships (1849) -- Western Union Telegraph Company (1851) -- Great Exhibition of 1851 -- Transatlantic Cable (1857) -- Panic of 1857 -- Overland travel and mail services (1859) -- Abraham Lincoln establishes protectionism (1860) -- World's largest cannon/Civil War technology (1864) -- Transcontinental Railroad completed (1869) -- Westinghouse air brake (1869) -- Panic of 1873 -- Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill (1875) -- Centennial exposition (1876) -- First commercial telephone (1877) -- Great Railroad Strike of 1877 -- World's first skyscraper (1884) -- War of the Currents (1885) -- Sears mail order business (1886) -- Haymarket Riot (1886) -- ALCOA aluminum formed (1888) -- McKinley Tariff of 1890 -- Homestead strike of 1892 -- Panic of 1893 -- Chicago World's Fair (1893) -- Pullman Strike (18940 -- Niagara Falls power plant (1896) -- Paternal capitalism-Homestead and Wilmerding, Pennsylvania (1896) -- First electric sign (product branding and advertising)-H.J. Heinz (1900) -- First billion-dollar corporation-United States Steel (1901) -- Henry Ford wins race of the century (1901) -- Owens automated glass bottle-making machine (1904) -- Upton Sinclair's Jungle (1905) -- Panic of 1907 -- Highland Park Ford assembly line (1910) -- Scientific Management (1911) -- Standard Oil antitrust lawsuit (19110 -- Income tax (1913) -- Federal Reserve Act 91913) -- Commercial flight (1914) -- Panama Canal opens (1914) -- General Motors Corporation formed (1916) -- Great Steel Strike of 1919 -- First commercial radio (1921) -- Hawthorne studies begin (1924) -- Talking movies-The Jazz Singer 91927) -- Stock market crash/Great Depression (1929) -- Hoover Dam (1931) -- National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) (1935) -- Social Security Act (1935) -- Television at the 1939 world's fair -- Maslow's theory of needs (1946) -- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1947) -- First credit card (1950) -- UNIVAC I (1951) -- Shippingport Atomic Power Station (1956) -- Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 -- First mass-produced transistor radio (1957) -- First Japanese auto sold in the United States (1958) -- Steel Strike of 1959 -- America targets the moon (1961) -- McDonald's launches golden arches (1962) -- Telstar Communications Satellites (1962) -- First Wal-Mart (and Kmart) open (1962) -- IBM 360 Computer (1964) -- Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) -- ARPAnet (earliest internet) formed (1969) -- Wage and price controls (1971) -- Arab oil embargo (1973) -- First customer scan of a bar code (1974) -- The year of the PC (1977) -- Three Mile Island nuclear failure (1979) -- IBM personal computer (1982) -- FCC approves advanced mobile phone system (IG) (1982) -- Deindustrialization of America-General Tire Akron closes (1982) -- CD-ROM (1985) -- Savings and loan crisis (1986) -- W. Edwards Deming publishes Out of the Crisis (1986) -- Amazon.com (1994) -- Bill Gates internet memo (1995) -- Google Incorporated (1998) -- First 3G networks and the smartphone (2003) -- RFID at Wal-Mart (2005) -- Banking crisis and Great Recession (2008) -- General Motors bankruptcy (2009).Throughout history, important commercial developments in the United States have made it possible for American companies to leverage tough economic conditions to survive--even thrive in a volatile marketplace. This reference book examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business and illustrates their influence on the labor laws, business practices, and management methodologies of corporate America today. The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia depicts the chronological order of events contributing to the evolution of American business, with an emphasis on the commercial innovations of each period. The book explores the origins of successful brands, including Apple, Wal-Mart, and Heinz; demonstrates the successful collaboration between public and private sectors illustrated by the Erie Canal, Hoover Dam, and the interstate highway system; and depicts the commercial impact of major economic events from the Panic of 1857 to the Great Recession of 2009.

Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Business; Industries;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

Heyday : the 1850s and the dawn of the global age / by Wilson, Ben,1980-author.(CARDINAL)690384;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-460) and index.Preface to the American edition -- 1851 : precipice in time -- Boom : the age of gold. 1851 : Annus mirabilis : London : The hairystocracy : Melbourne ; Bonanza : Newfoundland ; On the road : Nebraska ; Star of empire : Minnesota ; The hashish of the West : Kansas -- Faultlines : the age of silver. The ramparts of freedom ; El Presidente : Nicaragua ; Tsunami : Yokohama ; The civilising mission : Hong Kong ; Retribution : Lucknow -- News of the world : the age of bronze. Empire of news : Fleet Street ;m Master of time : New York-London ; Best of times, worst of times : Beijing, Turin, Montgomery ; Blood, iron, cotton, democracy : Bombay -- 1873 -- Chronology of events."From the author of the bestselling Empire of the deep, a globe-spanning narrative history of the 1850s--a time of electrifying change--seen through the eyes of the men and women who embraced the adventurous spirit of the times. Heyday brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. From 1851, in the space of little more than a decade, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. As instantaneous electric communication bridged the vast gulfs that separated human societies, millions of settlers travelled to the far corners of the Earth, building vast cities out of nothing in lightning-quick time. A new generation of fast steamships and railways connected these burgeoning frontier societies, shrinking the world and creating an interlinked global economy. In the company of fortune-seekers and ordinary migrants, we journey to these rapidly expanding frontiers, savouring the frenetic activity and optimism of the boom-towns of the 1850s in Australia, New Zealand the United States. This is a story not only of rapid progress, but of the victims of an assurgent West: indigenous peoples who stood in the pathways of economic expansion, Asian societies engulfed by the forces of modernisation. We join, among others, Muslim guerrilla fighters in the Caucasus mountains and freelance empire-builders in the jungles of Nicaragua, British free trade zealots preying on China and samurai warriors resisting Western incursions in Japan. No less important are the inventions, discoveries and technologies that powered progress, and the great engineering projects that characterised the Victorian heyday, notably the transatlantic telegraph cable. In a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic narrative, Ben Wilson recreates a time of explosive energy and dizzying change, a rollercoaster ride of booms and bust, witnessed through the eyes of the men and women reshaping its frontiers. At the centre stands Great Britain. The country was the peak of its power between 1851 and the mid-1860s as it attempted to determine the destinies of hundreds of millions of people. Heyday is a dazzlingly innovative take on a period of extraordinary transformation, a little-known decade that was fundamental in the making not only of Britain but of the modern world"--Publisher's website.

Subjects: Eighteen fifties.; History, Modern; Social change; Globalization; Free trade; Imperialism;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5

unAPI

Harlequin collection. by Krentz, Jayne Ann(DLC)n 85135118 (CARDINAL)346384; Sarin, Vic,1945-director(DLC)n 50019299; Bélanger, Gilles,producer(DLC)nr2005021231; O'Kelly, Barbara.(DLC)nr2005021262; Black, Jennifer(DLC)nr2005021263; Lauterman, Peter.(DLC)nr2005021264; Potter, Chris,1960-(DLC)no2003038382(CARDINAL)340349; West, Chandra,1970-(DLC)no2003003451; Hindle, Art.(DLC)nr2005021265; Pyper-Ferguson, John.(DLC)nr2005021266; Abdul, Paula,actor.(local)tlcaut5023295572535800; Crombie, Jonathan.(DLC)no 00001513 (CARDINAL)847438; Johnson, Geordie,1953-(DLC)nr2005023903; Beacham, Stephanie.(DLC)no 97047377; Alliance Atlantis (Firm)(DLC)no 99065039 ; Alliance Communications,Producer(DLC)no 97015467 ; Blue Wave Films Inc. (Firm)(local)tlcaut5023296172646000; CTV Television Network,Producer(DLC)no 99075498 ; Harlequin Enterprises.(DLC)n 85146878 (CARDINAL)747563; Lions Gate Home Entertainment.(DLC)no2002016003(CARDINAL)340727; Second Wave Productions,Producer(DLC)nr2005021268; TMA-Transatlantic Media Associates, Ltd.(local)tlcaut5023296415966500; Ventures for Two No. 1 Productions Ltd.(local)tlcaut5023296238615500;

Director of photography, Vic Sarin ; edited by Peter Light ; music by John McCarthy.The waiting game: Chris Potter, Chandra West, Art Hindle, John Pyper-Ferguson, Jonathan Crombie, Paula Abdul.Two best friends open thier first art show. When they meet a pair of enigmatic strangers, their otherwise cautious lives become entwined in a mystery involving drugs, the CIA and romance.DVD.

Subjects: Feature films.; Romance films.; Drugs.; Man-woman relationships; CIA;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

Results 1 to 10 of 10