2001
DOI: 10.1017/s0212610900009332
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Los inicios de las telecomunicaciones en España: el telégrafo

Abstract: RESUMENLa importancia que ha tenido el telégrafo en el desarrollo del comercio, sea como soporte técnico del ferrocarril o, directamente, como medio de acelerar la transmisión de información y de reducir los costes operativos en las empresas, ha venido atrayendo la atención de numerosos especialistas extranjeros. Este artículo sitúa el caso español, escasamente estudiado todavía, en perspectiva europea, destacando los condicionamientos económicos e institucionales que pesaron sobre el primer sistema telegráfic… Show more

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“…Then, the system based on bills of exchange was finally substituted, favouring the integration of the capital market (Castañeda and Tafunell, 1993). In a similar vein, the expansion of the telegraph increased the speed at which information could be transmitted, thus reducing transaction costs for the companies (Calvo, 2001). Between 1855 and 1900, the length of the telegraph lines in Spain increased from 713 to 32,320 km.…”
Section: Market Integration Transport Costs and Industrial Location mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Then, the system based on bills of exchange was finally substituted, favouring the integration of the capital market (Castañeda and Tafunell, 1993). In a similar vein, the expansion of the telegraph increased the speed at which information could be transmitted, thus reducing transaction costs for the companies (Calvo, 2001). Between 1855 and 1900, the length of the telegraph lines in Spain increased from 713 to 32,320 km.…”
Section: Market Integration Transport Costs and Industrial Location mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Along that process, it was constantly criticized for the impact that local lobbies and electoral strategies had on resource allocation (Alzola y Minondo, 1979;García Ortega, 1982;Calvo, 2001). According to the government itself, the influence of non-efficiency objectives and local lobbies implied in some cases the construction of: "two, three and sometimes four roads servicing too abundantly the same public interests, and other going through desert areas, and with such a high cost that it should have been enough to defer its construction in more fertile and populated terrain".…”
Section: State Intervention and Decreasing Returns To Network Expansimentioning
confidence: 99%