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The Victorian Internet
- Author
- Tom Standage
- Narrator
- Derek Perkins
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 24 March 2015
- Run Time
- 5 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Tom Standage
- Narrator
- Derek Perkins
- Duration
- 5 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 March 2015
- ISBN
- 9781494580926
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- History, General and world history, Technology: general issues, History of engineering and technology, Communications engineering / telecommunications
Synopsis
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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