- List of Illustrations* and Tables**
- Introduction: Inventing American Telecommunications
- 1. Making a Neighborhood of a Nation
- 2. Professor Morse’s Lightning
- 3. Antimonopoly
- 4. The New Postalic Dispensation
- 5. Rich Man’s Mail
- 6. The Talking Telegraph
- 7. Telephomania
- 8. Second Nature
- 9. Gray Wolves
- 10. Universal Service
- 11. One Great Medium?
- Epilogue: The Technical Millennium
- Chronology of American Telecommunications
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- “Napoleon’s Visual Telegraph: The First Long Distance System”
- “Amos Kendall”
- “American Progress”
- “Jupiter Ammonopoly Orton and His Victim the Press”
- “Getting Ready to Cut the Melon”
- “Consolidated”
- “The Best Kind of Monopoly”
- “In the Clutch of a Grasping Monopoly”
- “Telephone Traffic in Chicago”
- “The Telephone Brings Companionship”
- The relative size of the Bell and independent telephone exchanges in Chicago in 1915
- “I Hope Our Bell Boy Hurries with That Ordinance”
- “The Triumph of Science”
- ** Tables:
- 1. Annual operating revenue of the Post Office Department, Western Union, and the Bell System, 1866–1920
- 2. The five largest telephone exchanges in the world, 1882, 1895, 1910, and 1920
- 3. The popularization of the telephone in Chicago, 1899–1906
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