The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers
by Tom Standage
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Andrew Chen and Mark Cuban
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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 eighteenthcentury French scientist JeanAntoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and fur...
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