The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers | Tom Standage

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers Author: Tom Standage Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 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.