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      Disaster Ahead: How Danube Floods Created Telegraph Networks Translated title: Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History 2012, no. 7: Disaster Ahead: How Danube Floods Created Telegraph Networks

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          In 1849 the Habsburg Empire installed the first telegraph lines along the course of the Danube, connecting upper Austria and Vienna. This development was triggered by the constant threats posed by Danube floods. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, floods had regularly caused major damage to cities and settlements along the river. The introduction of wide-reaching telegraph networks enabled Habsburg authorities to receive early warnings that enabled them to protect Vienna as well as other downstream settlements.

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          Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
          Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
          2012
          00 August 2012
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          10.5282/rcc/3747
          d456bc79-73be-4016-b4ab-1b21fb57d85c

          CC BY NC SA 3.0 2012 Michael Neundlinger

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          Literary studies,Philosophy of science,Environmental change,Environmental studies,Contemporary history,Cultural studies
          rivers,dams,floods,technology,Environmental Knowledge,water,Disasters,Infrastructure

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