The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage
The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage
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The Victorian Internet
The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

Author: Tom Standage

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/24/2015

Synopsis

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.

About Tom Standage

Tom Standage is digital editor at the Economist and editor-in-chief of its website, economist.com. He is the author of six history books, including An Edible History of Humanity, the New York Times bestseller A History of the World in Six Glasses, and The Victorian Internet. His writing has also appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times, and Wired. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip on December 04, 2013

After reading a number of the reviews I am prone to think that a number of people missed the larger point. For all of the hyping of the internet in the mid to late 90's, it wasn't as drastic a change to everyday lives as was the electric telegraph. Where it took weeks to months for a message to cros......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on April 05, 2011

I just finished this wonderful little volume which chronicles the rise and fall of "The Victorian Intenet," the telegraph. Like many others, I knew about Samuel Morse and the Morse Code, of the laying of the Atlantic cable and how the telegraph laid the groundwork for modern communications unlike an......more

Goodreads review by Victor on December 20, 2020

The story of how the telegraph service changed the world (and boy did it change the world).......more

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