Comments on: The Rise and Fall of the First Internet http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/news/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Richard Lawrence http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/news/comment-page-1/#comment-67223 Richard Lawrence Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:12:01 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/news/#comment-67223 For an interesting account of the electric telegraph before Morse's demonstration in 1844, see Laszlo Solymar: Getting the Message: A History of Communications (OUP, Oxford 1999). An account of the first fax machine in 1865 (not 1965) and the mechanical telegraphs that preceded the electric telegraph are also fascinating. For an interesting account of the electric telegraph before Morse’s demonstration in 1844, see Laszlo Solymar: Getting the Message: A History of Communications (OUP, Oxford 1999). An account of the first fax machine in 1865 (not 1965) and the mechanical telegraphs that preceded the electric telegraph are also fascinating.

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