The Cable - Gillian Cookson

The Cable

Wire to the New World

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
168 Seiten
2012
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7524-8786-1 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid.
The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid, the people who dared, the people who lost, and the people who profited. It tells of the dramatic attempts to cross the Atlantic during the 1850s and 1860s from the first failed attempts to the project that finally succeeded. An inconceivably audacious attempt to overcome the forces of nature in the name of human progress and technology, the laying of the cable was to change forever our means of communication. The speed with which information could now be transmitted was unprecedented and revolutionized the face of news and the global economy.

Gillian Cookson is an industrial historian specialising in the origins of engineering. She is research fellow at Durham University.

Verlagsort Stroud
Sprache englisch
Maße 125 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-7524-8786-8 / 0752487868
ISBN-13 978-0-7524-8786-1 / 9780752487861
Zustand Neuware
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