Technology transfer, economic strategies and politics in the building of the first italian submarine telegraph / Andrea Giuntini
| Signatura | Copia | Colección |
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| 10269 | Capítulo en monografía |
In the second half of the nineteenth century Italy was a latecomer, and a peripheral one, in the new advanced technology of submarine telegraph cables. Although unable to compete with the European countries that dominated this field, it played and important roleuntil the beginninig of the 1870's, primarily as a result of its strategic geographical position in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea: in fact Italy was a natural crossroad for the cables connecting Great Britain and France with the Middle East and North Africa. Already before the unification, and in the inmediate aftermath of that process, Italy began to be provided with an apreciable number of submarine cables, and to exploit the transfer of technology and entrepreneurship. These advancements took place also by virtue of the adaptability and of the shrewdness of the Italian government wich, having realized the comercial value of this novel technology, tried to maximize this very atractive opportunity by concluding several favourable agreements with the foreign companies that controlled underwater telegraphy. The first cable was laid as early as 1854, close to Corsica, as a part of the long line connecting France to Algeria. After the unification, Italy strove sucessfully to develop its own telegraphy network.
P. 277-293
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| Fundación Juanelo Turriano | 10269 |
In the second half of the nineteenth century Italy was a latecomer, and a peripheral one, in the new advanced technology of submarine telegraph cables. Although unable to compete with the European countries that dominated this field, it played and important roleuntil the beginninig of the 1870's, primarily as a result of its strategic geographical position in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea: in fact Italy was a natural crossroad for the cables connecting Great Britain and France with the Middle East and North Africa. Already before the unification, and in the inmediate aftermath of that process, Italy began to be provided with an apreciable number of submarine cables, and to exploit the transfer of technology and entrepreneurship. These advancements took place also by virtue of the adaptability and of the shrewdness of the Italian government wich, having realized the comercial value of this novel technology, tried to maximize this very atractive opportunity by concluding several favourable agreements with the foreign companies that controlled underwater telegraphy. The first cable was laid as early as 1854, close to Corsica, as a part of the long line connecting France to Algeria. After the unification, Italy strove sucessfully to develop its own telegraphy network.
P. 277-293
