The Victorian Internet

The Victorian Internet
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781635573961
ISBN-13 : 1635573963
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Download or read book The Victorian Internet written by Tom Standage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first. 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 scientist 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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