Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880

ISBN-13: 9780198856887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Jean-Michel Johnston

Recenzje

Johnston shows that academics, independent scientists, and entrepreneurs joined forces to improve on the old optical telegraph by replacing it with the electrical telegraph in an effort marked by competition as much as collaboration ... Johnston covers this all with scholarly care and remarkable lucidity.

O autorze

Jean-Michel Johnston is a Fellow and College Lecturer in Modern European History at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. He was born in London and educated in Britain and France. He obtained a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he was subsequently a researcher on the ERC-funded 'Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives' project, before moving to Cambridge.