When Old Technologies Were New : Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century.
Title:
When Old Technologies Were New : Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century.
Author:
Marvin, Carolyn.
ISBN:
9780198021384
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (294 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
This study describes how two late 19th-century electronic technologies - the telephone and the electric light - were publicly envisaged both by specialized engineering trade journals and the popular media.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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