Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 384.109
EAN: 9780425171691
ISBN: 0425171698
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 15, 1999
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Sales Rank: 154446
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Rating:  - An excellent book!
The invention of the telegraph, its development and its use in the 19th century as a communication device is discussed in this excellent volume. Real stories of telegraphy, some of them quite surprising, provide background to the story of this technology, a real leap forward in its time. Well organized with good writing this is an excellent book. Whether you are fascinated by telegraphy or have never really thought about it before, this book will keep you entertained.
Rating: - An important book and a fun book
I have written three books on Wireless networking and am about to start writing a fourth. Coming from this perspective, The Victorian Internet was both an excellent read and an enlightening one. It is true that we can get caught up in any new thing and think that it is going to drastically alter the world. Of course, those of use directly implementing the new thing always think it will alter teh world for the better. This book shines a light of reality on this thinking to make you realize that a ... Read More
Rating: - History repeats itself
Again, and again, patterns of human behavior repeat. This easy to read book explains the parallels between early communication methods and our Internet era. Everything old is clearly new again, and once you read this book, you will more easily identify the same thing in other areas. I may make you a bit of a cynic, but I think it is being more realistic.
There are also some really cute stories of individuals and their interactions. Romances over telegraph, some of which led to marriages ... Read More
Rating: - Writing Far Away
The invention of the electric telegraph during Queen Victoria's reign allowed communication to quickly cover long distances. The railroads allowed people and freight to quickly cover long distances. Both made the modern world what it is today. The telegraph existed decades earlier as a semaphore (with lights) that could send messages to a distant viewer. Sending a signal by light goes back over a thousand years. "One if by land, two if by sea."
Oersted discovered that an electric current ... Read More
Rating: - can't get it back...
I bought this one, and my 15 year old son took it. He reads it constantly and I can't get it back. What a surprise...
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