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Autore: | Marvin Carolyn |
Titolo: | When old technologies were new [[electronic resource] ] : thinking about electric communication in the late nineteenth century / / Carolyn Marvin |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269p. ) : [14]p of plates, ill., facsims., port |
Disciplina: | 621.38 |
Soggetto topico: | Telecommunication - History - 19th century |
Electrical engineering - History - 19th century | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 1988. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliography: p. 237-265 and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | When old technologies were new |
ISBN: | 0-19-756018-0 |
1-280-52479-0 | |
9786610524792 | |
0-19-802138-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910449692903321 |
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