Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line pioneers by Tom Standage

Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line pioneers

Tom Standage with Tom Standage (Illustrator)

227 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
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Beginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the other of a chain of two hundred monks, Tom Standage tells the story of the spread of the telegraph and it...

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