Victorian Internet The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

"Standage tells his fascinating story in an engaging, readable style, from the moment a bunch of Carthusian monks get suckered into a hilarious human electrical-conductivity experiment in 1746 to the telegraph's eventual eclipse by the telephone. If you've ever hankered for a perspective on media Net hype, this book is for you."Standage, Tom is the author of 'Victorian Internet The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers', published 1999 under ISBN 9780425171691 and ISBN 0425171698.