The Victorian Internet

the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers

by Tom Standage

1999 240 pages eng ★ 3.0 (3 ratings)

The Victorian Internet tells the 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, whose experiments proved that electricity could be transmitted over great dis…