The Victorian Internet
the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth centuryʼs on-line pioneers
by Tom Standage
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The Victorian Internet tells the 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, whose experiments proved that electricity could be transmitted over great distances, to Samuel F. B.
Morse, who developed the first practical electric telegraph in 1837, to Thomas Edison, who began his career in the telegraph business and proposed to his wife by tapping Morse code on her hand, Tom Standage tells a colorful tale of scientific discovery, technological cunning, personal rivalry, and cutthroat competition.
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
September 18, 2007, Walker & Company, Walker
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
October 15, 1999, Berkley Books
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1999, Berkley Books
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The Victorian Internet: the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers
1998, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Victorian Internet: the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth centuryʼs on-line pioneers
1998, Walker and Co.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-217) and index.
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