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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 5, 2021
Gloria Calhoun, a graduate student in the School of History and Sociology, recently published "Why Wire Mattered: Building U.S. Networked Infrastructures, 1845-1910," in Technology and Culture.
Calhoun's article emphasizes the importance of telegraph network wire in the development and evolution of US network infrastructure.