The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line PioneersA 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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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
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User Review - Stbalbach - LibraryThingThe Victorian Internet was published in 1998 at the height of the Internet's new popularity. At the time I thought an analogy with telegraphy seemed like a cheap gimmick and so I didn't read it ... Read full review
Contents
The Mother of All Networks | 1 |
Strange Fierce Fire | 22 |
Electric Skeptics | 41 |
The Thrill Electric | 57 |
Wiring the World | 74 |
SteamPowered Messages | 92 |
Codes Hackers and Cheats | 117 |
Other editions - View all
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 - 2007 |
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the ... Tom Standage Limited preview - 2014 |
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