The Victorian Internet

Tom Standage

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Phoenix
01 July 1999

General & world history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Postal & telecommunications industries; Impact of science & technology on society

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 its transformation of the Victorian world. The telegraph was greeted by all the same concerns, hype, social panic and excitement that now surround the Internet, and Standage provides both a fascinating insight into the past and a context in which to think rather differently of today's concerns.

Standage has a wonderful prose style and an excellent eye for the telling and engaging story. Popular history at its best.

By: Tom Standage
Imprint: Phoenix
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 198g
ISBN: 9780753807033
ISBN 10: 0753807033
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 July 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Victorian Internet

Web sites and e-mails, surfing and down-loading: everyone's doing it. It's the latest thing, that's why. Or is it? This timely book reminds us that, in a sense, we have been here before. The mid-Victorian period witnessed a communications revolution of no less, and in some ways rather more, significance than the spread of the Internet, in the form of the telegraph. For the first time people could communicate across nations and around the world in seconds and minutes rather than days and weeks. It transformed the flow of information, the conduct of business and the exercise of government; it created the first 'global village'. Standage tells the resonant story of the remarkable individuals who created this technology in Britain and America and of the many surprising uses to which it was put. (Kirkus UK)