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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers

By Tom Standage

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
978-08027-1879-2
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
949 kB (971794 bytes)
Edition
2nd
Pages
0\0
Time added
2018-09-12 13:24:00
HistoryHistory; Science & TechniqueHistory;CommunicationsNets; Sociology; TechnologyTelegraph; Neurobiology;Neurophysiology; Communica

Description

The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French neurobiologist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.

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