When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

by Carolyn Marvin

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In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195063414

ISBN13:9780195063417

Release Date:May 1990

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 8.4" x 5.5"

Related Subjects

Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies Dictionaries & Thesauruses Education & Reference Electrical & Electronics Engineering History & Philosophy Media Studies Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences

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