The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneer delivers a tale of the history of the telegraph - one of the most essential technological innovation. The book gives a comprehensive view on the developing of the telegraph with its obstacles and successes, and also the story of the scientists who pioneer it. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneer tells the story of the extraordinary development of the telegraph during the nineteenth century. The telegraph delivers a total new commercial practices, and also greatly impacts politics, journalism, military, and social communication. By 1865, the transatlantic telegraph
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The telegraph is developed during the 1800s, which is the time when people still strongly raise doubt on any new technology, and they believe that the telegraph is merely a magic trick or just a figment of somebody’s imagination. In addition, when the idea of expanding the use of telegraph is introduced to the government in America, it has been received resistance and sarcasm from many conservative political parties. Even when the development of telegraph in America turns to private businesses for funding, it still has to deal with the highly cost of sending and receiving messages by the telegraph. Notwithstanding facing many adversities from the beginning, the telegraph system in United States has successfully impacted every aspects of life in …show more content…
The telegraph has been simultaneously developed both in the United States and Britain by Morse and Cooke. From the beginning, there was lack of connection between scientists of British and America. While British scientists are still puzzled with how to transmit the messages through a long wire, Henry - an American physicist already finds out all it need is "a large number of small batteries connected in a row, rather than a single large battery"(Standage). But when the idea of transatlantic telegraph is proposed, the United States and Britain have created a strong collaboration to make it
The telegraph is developed during the 1800s, which is the time when people still strongly raise doubt on any new technology, and they believe that the telegraph is merely a magic trick or just a figment of somebody’s imagination. In addition, when the idea of expanding the use of telegraph is introduced to the government in America, it has been received resistance and sarcasm from many conservative political parties. Even when the development of telegraph in America turns to private businesses for funding, it still has to deal with the highly cost of sending and receiving messages by the telegraph. Notwithstanding facing many adversities from the beginning, the telegraph system in United States has successfully impacted every aspects of life in …show more content…
The telegraph has been simultaneously developed both in the United States and Britain by Morse and Cooke. From the beginning, there was lack of connection between scientists of British and America. While British scientists are still puzzled with how to transmit the messages through a long wire, Henry - an American physicist already finds out all it need is "a large number of small batteries connected in a row, rather than a single large battery"(Standage). But when the idea of transatlantic telegraph is proposed, the United States and Britain have created a strong collaboration to make it