When Old Technologies Were New： Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

剧情简介：This book describes how two newly invented communications technologies - the telephone and the electric light - were publicly envisioned, in specialized engineering trade journals as well as in more popular media, at the end of the nineteenth century. Much of the focus is on the telephone, particularly how it disrupted established social relations (people did not know how to to...(展开全部)

作者：Carolyn Marvin

出版社：Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN：9780195063417