Author: TOM STANDAGE
Title: The Victorian Internet
Description: Berkley Books, 1999. Paperback. Pp: 227. For thousands of years people had communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried to develop speedier messaging devices, including 'magical' needles that relied more on telepathy than technology. Then, over the course of three decades in the mid-1800s, a few extraordinary pioneers at last succeeded. Their invention - the electric telegraph - nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before, or since. ISBN: 9780425171691. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780425171691


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