The Victorian Internet
First published 1998
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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.
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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.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Tom Standage
- First published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Berkley Books
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780425171691