When old technologies were new : thinking about electric communication in the late nineteenth century / / Carolyn Marvin
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 1988. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliography: p. 237-265 and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| 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: | 0-19-987876-5 |
| 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.: | 9910821528603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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