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The Victorian Internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers / Tom Standage.

By:

Standage, Tom [author.]

Contributor(s):

Cerf, Vinton G, 1943- [writer of added commentary.]

Material type:

TextPublisher: New York Bloomsbury, 2014Copyright date: 1998Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781620405925
162040592X

Subject(s):

Telegraph -- History

Contents:

The mother of all networks -- Strange, fierce fire -- Electric skeptics -- The thrill electric -- Wiring the world -- Steam-powered messages -- Codes, hackers, and cheats -- Love over the wires -- War and peace in the global village -- Information overload -- Decline and fall -- The legacy of the telegraph.

Summary: "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." -- Publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Storms Research Center Main Collection	HE 7631 .S677 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	98649392

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Includes new Afterword.

"Foreword by Vinton Cerf, coinventor of the Internet" --Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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." -- Publisher's website.

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