Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - Philip - GoodreadsAfter 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 ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - Converse - GoodreadsOn-line wedding are old news. They were first done via electrical telegraph. This is one of the many parallel between the internet and one of the oldest telecommunications technologies. The changes ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - Lisabet Sarai - GoodreadsBefore the telegraph, no information could travel any faster than the human being who carried it. Samuel Morse and his peers changed that completely, and in the process, transformed commerce, politics ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsThe 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 ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - Rachel - GoodreadsAn excellent overview of the challenges of communication only recently overcome - as the author points out, both Julius Caesar and George Washington, despite living centuries apart, were limited by ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers
Nutzerbericht - Jacqueline O. - GoodreadsI loved this book! I highly, highly recommend it. The Victorian Internet is an excellent history of the telegraph. But it is not simply a fact-and-name filled book of inventions and advances. It's a ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - Brian - GoodreadsLoved this book. Anyone who is interested in the future of journalism should read this. We can learn a lot from history. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - Adam Wiggins - GoodreadsFun read about the heyday of the electric telegraph (circa 1850 - 1880). Tidbits: - The original telegraph system was visual, not electric. Towers were built on tall hills that signaled each other and ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - John Dodds - GoodreadsA gripping story of invention and innovation in the 19th century. Two things particularly struck me: (a) that the initial experiments with the electric telegraph were much earlier than I had imagined ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: The Victorian Internet
Nutzerbericht - Doc Kinne - GoodreadsThe book was good, and largely lived up to its billing, but in the end I liked "The Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States" better. While the thrust of the ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
