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UNINA9910821528603321 |
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Marvin Carolyn |
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Titolo |
When old technologies were new : thinking about electric communication in the late nineteenth century / / Carolyn Marvin |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-987876-5 |
0-19-756018-0 |
1-280-52479-0 |
9786610524792 |
0-19-802138-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269p. ) : [14]p of plates, ill., facsims., port |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Telecommunication - History - 19th century |
Electrical engineering - History - 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1988. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography: p. 237-265 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Inventing the Expert Technological Literacy as Social Currency -- 2. Community and Class Order Progress Close to Home -- 3. Locating the Body in Electrical Space and Time Competing Authorities -- 4. Dazzling the Multitude Original Media Spectacles -- 5. Annihilating Space, Time, and Difference Experiments in Cultural Homogenization -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Illustrations. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the 19th century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, & cinema were all invented. In 'When old Technologies Were New', Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions - the telephone & the electric light - were publicly envisioned at the end of the 19th century, as seen in specialized engineering journals & popular media. Marvin pays particular attention to the telephone, describing how it disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person & family from the more public setting of the community. |
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