books.google.de - In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the 19th century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When Old Technologies Were New , Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new...http://books.google.de/books/about/When_Old_Technologies_Were_New_Thinking.html?hl=de&id=lDIQa7sf2aYC&q=wire&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWhen Old Technologies Were New : Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century