The Victorian Internet

Description

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. 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.

First Sentence

On an APrIL DaY in 1746 at the grand convent of the Carthusians in Paris, about two hundred monks arranged themselves in a long, snaking line.

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Other Editions

• The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line PioneersPaperbackWalker2007-09-18
• The Victorian InternetWalker and Co.1998-01-01
• Victorian InternetPaperbackWalker Co1998-01-01
• The Victorian InternetWeidenfeld & Nicolson1998-01-01
• The Victorian InternetBerkley Books1999-01-01
• Victorian InternetPaperbackPhoenix Books1999-04-01