Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

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Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

A 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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ISBN 13 9780802716040
ISBN 10 0802716040
Title Victorian Internet
Author Tom Standage
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Walker & Co
Year published 2007-09-18
Number of pages 233
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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