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The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage
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Description for The Victorian Internet
Paperback. The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debate. Num Pages: 224 pages, Colour 32. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; KNTT; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218.
The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debate 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 ... Read more
The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debate 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
218g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753807033
SKU
V9780753807033
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Ref
99-10
About Tom Standage
Tom Standage is science correspondent at the ECONOMIST. He is married and lives in Greenwich.
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