Publisher Description
The Victorian Internet tells the colorful 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 to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.
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“The name of the book first caught my attention and the summary sold it. My husband is a ham radio operator who loves Morse code contacts more than voice contacts. We listened together. It’s a well done look at communications in the Victorian Age. Though somewhat familiar with the history of telegraphic development, it is just that, history. This presents the story along the lines of people who used the service and depended on it each day, and ow it made a difference in culture and society. It was a tremendous breakthrough in the ability of news to travel faster and further and is a great read.”
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Bur (4 out of 5 stars)
