The Victorian Internet - 2nd Edition by Tom Standage (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first Internet, which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A new paperback edition of the book the <i>Wall Street Journal </i>dubbed "a Dot-Com cult classic," by the bestselling author of <i>A History of the World in 6 Glasses</i>-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet."</b><br><i><br>The Victorian Internet </i>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Tom Standage</b> is the former technology editor and current business editor at the<i> Economist</i>. He is the author of <i>Writing on the Wall: Social Media-The First 2000 Years</i>, the bestseller <i>A History of the World in 6 Glasses</i>, <i>An Edible History of Humanity</i>, <i>The Turk</i>, and <i>The Neptune File</i>. He lives in London.
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