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

by Carolyn Marvin

Book Overview

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"