The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line PioneersA new paperback 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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User Review - ladyoflorien - www.librarything.comI listened to this book in audio format and loved hearing about the invention of the telegraph, the Victorian Internet, and its impact on society. Read full review
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User Review - Dreesie - LibraryThingSo, this is a fairly dull and easy to read history of the telegraph. The earlier chapters are certainly the most interesting, but it very much glosses over electric theory of the time, and how ... Read full review
Contents
The Mother of All Networks | 1 |
Strange Fierce Fire | 22 |
Electric Skeptics | 57 |
Wiring the World | 74 |
SteamPowered Messages | 92 |
Codes Hackers and Cheats | 105 |
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the ... Tom Standage Limited preview - 1998 |
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the ... Tom Standage Limited preview - 2018 |
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the ... Tom Standage Limited preview - 2009 |