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The Victorian Internet

by Tom Standage
Derek Perkins
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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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Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781494590925
  • File size: 154754 KB
  • Release date: March 24, 2015
  • Duration: 05:22:24

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  • ISBN: 9781494590925
  • File size: 154775 KB
  • Release date: March 24, 2015
  • Duration: 05:22:22
  • Number of parts: 5
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History Technology Nonfiction

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English

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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History Technology Nonfiction
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