- Telegraphie, Telekommunikationsnetz, Telegraph, History
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.
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Classical in form, resolved, warm and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Tom Standage
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 227
- Publisher
- Berkley Books, Phoenix Books, Walker
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802713421
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“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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