Los inicios de las telecomunicaciones en España: el telégrafo*

Ángel Calvo Calvo

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 2001, vol. 19, issue 3, 613-635

Abstract: The telegraph has been of great importance in the development of commerce, both as a technical support of railways and as a means of accelerating the transmission of information and of cutting transaction costs in the firms. This article places the Spanish case, seldom considered by the literature, in a European context. It outlines the economic and institutional factors which affected the first Spanish telegraphic system. Unlike what happened with the railways and the telephone, the telegraph was state constructed and owned. For different reasons, Spain lagged behind other European countries in the evolution of the telegraphic service.

Date: 2001
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