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Synopsis
This lively account traces the history of the telegraph and examines how this first global communications network--and such seemingly modern phenomena as on-line romances and high-tech crimes--affected Victorians.
| Size | | Length: | 227 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Standage tells his fascinating story in an engaging, readable style, from the moment a bunch of Carthusian monks get suckered into a hilarious human electrical-conductivity experiment in 1746 to the telegraph's eventual eclipse by the telephone. If you've ever hankered for a perspective on media Net hype, this book is for you."
Wired - Hari Kunzru (12/19/1998)
"THE VICTORIAN INTERNET is a real eye-opener. I expected a few cute (and probably overstretched ) parallels between the nineteenth century's telegraph and today's electronic superhighway; but Standage brings up points in common that are nothing less than astonishing."
Ruley
"Standage, a deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph in London, has written a lively book on the telegraph and its role in helping 19th century business and technology grow...."The Victorian Internet" demonstrates engagingly that not even 21st century technology is totally new."
Denver Post (09/27/1999)
"Although [THE VICTORIAN INTERNET] does offer some suggestions about what we might expect from our rewiring world, its real interest and pleasure lie in remembering the first electronic network....Standage's book is refreshingly direct, if not academic, history. Lacking footnotes and nearly all scholastic apparatus, it is nevertheless freighted with carefully chosen anecdotes and elegant summaries."
Reason - Bryan Alexander (01/20/2000)
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