Author: William Fothergill Cooke
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: William Fothergill Cooke
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: William Fothergill Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108052746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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First published in 1895, this collection of letters casts light on the early history and development of the electric telegraph.

Author: William Fothergill Cooke
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ISBN: 9783337092177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Extracts from the Private Letters of the Late Sir William Fothergill Cooke, 1836-39 - relating to the invention and development of the electric telegraph is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1020

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Author: Tom Standage
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635573963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first. 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 eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1278

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Author: Laura Otis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112135
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This compelling new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communications technology. Laura Otis, neuroscientist, literary scholar, and recent recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, demonstrates that the image of the network is centuries old; it is by no means a modern notion. Placing current comparisons of nerve and computer networks in perspective, Otis explores early analogies linking nerves and telegraphs and demonstrates the influence that nineteenth-century neurobiologists, engineers, and fiction writers influenced each other's ideas about communication. The interdisciplinary sweep of this book is impressive. Otis focuses simultaneously on literary works by such authors as George Eliot, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and Mark Twain and on the scientific and technological achievements of such pioneers as Luigi Galvani, Hermann von Helmholtz, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, and Werner von Siemens. This unique juxtaposition of physiology, engineering, and literature reveals the common thoughts shared by writers in widely diverse fields and suggests that our current comparisons of nerve and computer networks may not only enhance but shape our understanding of both neurobiology and technology. Highly accessible and jargon-free, Networking will appeal to general readers as well as to scholars in the fields of interdisciplinary studies, nineteenth-century literature, and the history of science and technology. Laura Otis is Associate Professor of English, Hofstra University. In 2000, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her interdisciplinary studies of literature and science. Her previous books include Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics and Organic Memory: History and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.

Author: John Crerar library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1770

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