The Victorian Internet
the Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers
$38.50
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 July 1999
Summary
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 th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753807033 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753807033 |
| Author: | Tom Standage |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 156mm x 18mm |
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Standage knows how to spin a good yarn … he blends anecdote, suspense and science into richly readable stuff * Independent *
About The Author
Tom Standage
Tom Standage is science correspondent at the ECONOMIST. He is married and lives in Greenwich.
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