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

Carolyn Marvin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 278 pages
  • Publisher: OUP USA; New Ed edition (25 Oct 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0195063414
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195063417
  • Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.3 x 1.8 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 310,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Deserves close reading by historians of the modern media. Drawing on contemporary popular and professional sources, Carolyn Marvin challenges the traditional view of the social origins of electric media....An important addition."--Journal of American History
"The originality of her analysis and thoughtful questions provide a valuable perspective on this critically important period in the history of American technology."--American Historical Review
"Marvin's work is substantial, and her exploration of primary sources laudable. Her collection of anecdotes and significant historical residues is itself rewarding. Add to that her provocative theoretical discussions and you have a work worthy of a scholar's attention."--Journalism History
"This most informative book helps the modern reader to comprehend the speed at which electricity-dependent technologies have altered human perceptions of humankind and the world."--Choice
"A wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining account of the early years of electric and electronic development, this book re-thinks the traditional artifactual and institutional approaches to media history."--Electrical Review

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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 respond to its use or impact) and how society tried to bring it under a carefully prescribed pattern of proper usage. While the emphasis is on the way professionals in the electronics field tried to control the new media, their broader social impact is also discussed.
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Electrical professionals were the ambitious catalysts of an industrial shift from steam to electricity taking place in the United States and Western Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Read the first page
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Informative and Interesting 5 Aug 2009
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