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Our Industrial Life
“The Victorian Internet”—The world’s first global communication network
The telegraph system went from speculative theory to a global telecommunications network connecting continents via undersea cables in just 35 years.
Episode page:
https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/podcasts/the-victorian-internet/
Article page:
https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/dot-dot-dash-35-years-that-shrunk-the-world/
[1] “The Electric & International Telegraph Company's map of the telegraph lines of Europe” Published under the Authority of the Electric Telegraph Company by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen. August 1, 1856.
[2] The Iconography of Manhattan Island. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, 1915. Page 61.
[3] Cyrus W. Field, His life and work [1819-1892]. Isabella Field Johnson. New York Brothers Publishers, 1896. Page 117.
[4] The story of the telegraph and a history of the great Atlantic cable. Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick. Rudd & Carleton, 1858. Pages 11-12.
[5] The Victorian internet. Tom Standage. Bloomsbury, 1998. Page 90.
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