The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Standage, Tom (9781620405925)

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers - Edition #2

by Standage, Tom

Paperback - English

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.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Edition Number

ISBN

162040592X

EAN

9781620405925

Publisher

BLOOMSBURY

Publication Date

25 Feb 2014

Pages

256

Weight (kg)

0.26

Dimensions (cm)

19.4 x 12.8 x 1.8

About Author

Tom Standage is technology editor at "The Economist" magazine and the author of four history books, ""A History of the World in Six Glasses"" (2005), ""The Turk"" (2002), ""The Neptune File"" (2000) and ""The Victorian Internet" "(1998), two of which have been serialized as "Book of the Week" on Radio 4. ""The Victorian Internet" was made into a Channel 4 documentary, "How The Victorians Wired the World." Tom has previously covered science and technology for a number of newspapers and magazines, including "The Guardian," "The Daily Telegraph," "Wired" and "Prospect," He holds a degree in engin