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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-217) and index.
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"On an APrIL DaY in 1746 at the grand convent of the Carthusians in Paris, about two hundred monks arranged themselves in a long, snaking line."
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