When old technologies were new : thinking about electric communication in the late nineteenth century

When old technologies were new : thinking about electric communication in the late nineteenth century / Carolyn Marvin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Marvin, Carolyn (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Subjects:	1800-1899 Telecommunication > History > 19th century. Electrical engineering > History > 19th century. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Electrical. Electrical engineering Telecommunication Electronic books. History
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Table of 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.