Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
1998
Author
Author: Tom Standage
Language
English
Number of Pages
227 pp.
Publisher
Walker and Company
City
New York, NY
Chronological Period
1800-1849
1850-1899
ISBN
9780802713421
Annotation
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.
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