Aux origines de la crise du téléphone français. L'ébauche manquée d'une politique technique de l'Etat

Electric telegraphy develops rapidly in France between 1850 and 1880, situating itself at the world's best level because of the importance of its network as well as its innovation capacity. The same isn't true concerning the telephone. A mediocre network and a near-total dependency upon foreign patents, such is the acknowledgment at the shift of the century. To explain such a contrast, we propose to take into account the concertaining of two logics: one stemming from a group of engineers who through a practice closely related to what we could call today research and development, will play a decisive role in telegraphy's expansion ; and an administrative one, that comes from the postal service direction who will carry to an end the merging project of the postal and telegraph administrations, as well as the reduction of this group of engineers who represent a congruent portion. The birth of the telegraphy college and ten years later its removal in favour of the professional college of the P. and T., constitute the markers of this confrontation

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