VICTORIAN INTERNET by Standage, Tom ISBN 0753807033
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A history of the telegraph and its transformation of the Victorian world. The telegraph was greeted with the same concerns, hype, social panic and excitement that now surround the Internet, and Standage provides an insight into the past and a context in which to think about today's concerns.
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 think rather differently of today's concerns. Standage has a wonderful prose style and an excellent eye for the telling and engaging story. Popular history at its best.
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[edit] Title
VICTORIAN INTERNET
[edit] Author
Standage, Tom
[edit] ISBN
0753807033
[edit] Published
01/04/1999
[edit] Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
[edit] Binding
paperback (B format)
[edit] Retail Price
7.99 (GBP)
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7.19 (GBP)
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