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The Victorian Internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth centuryʼs on-line pioneers by Tom Standage is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A new 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. 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 N
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- Author
- Tom Standage
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802718792
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Engineering, Social Science, Science
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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