Read by: Derek Perkins
Language: English
Length: 5 hours and 22 minutes
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Release date: 2015-03-24
Platform | Country | Chart | Last Rank | Last Ranked At |
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Audible | Top Computers & Technology Audiobooks (Audible Plus) | 98 | September 19, 2024 |
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 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.