Telecommunications in Contemporary Spain, 1855-2000

The construction of both contemporary society and modern State cannot be understood without taking into account the deep transformations that communications produced in the organization of the different national spaces and of the world system. If electrical telegraphy changed and moulded the world of the 19th century, radiotelegraphy and telephony changed the 20th century. Wireless telegraphy was the basis for the development of broadcasting and television. In the last thirty years of the 20th century, telephonic wire turned into the instrument that canalized most of the innovations of the revolution of telecommunications, which have resulted in the birth of the society of the information.