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When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century Marvin, Carolyn (Assistant Professor of Communications, Annenberg School, Assistant Professor of Communications, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania)
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century
Marvin, Carolyn (Assistant Professor of Communications, Annenberg School, Assistant Professor of Communications, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania)
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.
278 pages, 14 pp halftone plates
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 24, 1990 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195063417 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 134 × 216 × 19 mm · 385 g |
| Language | English |