Dr. Sophie FitzMaurice, 'From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th Century U.S'

This week on the podcast, PhD candidates Hugh Wood and Megan Renoir sit down with Sophie FitzMaurice, Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. Sophie discusses her paper, "From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th-Century U.S." —an exploration of the environmental and material history of a technology that, for the first time, allowed information to outpace human movement. Co-hosted by Hugh Wood and Megan Renoir Production by Daisy Semmler (MPhil 2025)

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Dr. Sophie FitzMaurice, 'From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th Century U.S' is an episode from Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast by Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast.

This episode is 00:28:13 long.

This episode was published on Apr 24, 2025.

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