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Victorian Internet

By Tom Standage

Book information

Publisher
Phoenix Books
Year
1999
ISBN
0753807033, 9780753807033
Open Library ID
OL7988117M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18051801 bytes)
Pages
224\248
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Beginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the other of a chain of two hundred monks, Tom Standage tells the story of the spread of the telegraph and its transformation of the Victorian world. The telegraph was greeted by all the same concerns, hype, social panic and excitement that now surround the Internet, and Standage provides both a fascinating insight into the past and a context in which to think rather differently of today's concerns. Standage has a wonderful prose style and an excellent eye for the telling and engaging story. Popular history at its best.

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