General Information

Author/Creator

Standage, Tom, 1969-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Walker and Co., 1998.

Physical Description

xv, 233 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Telegraph > History.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Tom Standage.

Content

The mother of all networks -- Strange, fierce fire -- Electric skeptics -- The thrill electric -- Wiring the world -- Steam-powered messages -- Codes, hackers, and cheats -- Love over the wires -- War and peace in the global village -- Information overload -- Decline and fall -- The legacy of the telegraph -- Epilogue.

ISBN

0802713424

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	384.1/09 STA		General Stacks	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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