Description
A new paperback edition of the book the Wall Street Journal dubbed "a Dot-Com cult classic," by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet."
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.
Author: Tom Standage
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 02/25/2014
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.10w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781620405925
ISBN10: 162040592X
BISAC Categories:
- History | World | General
- Technology & Engineering | History
- Technology & Engineering | Telecommunications
About the Author
Tom Standage is the former technology editor and current business editor at the Economist. He is the author of Writing on the Wall: Social Media-The First 2000 Years, the bestseller A History of the World in 6 Glasses, An Edible History of Humanity, The Turk, and The Neptune File. He lives in London.