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Review of ‘The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers’
Over the course of the 19th century this primitive network of flapping ... Independently invented in England and the United States, the electric telegraph soon crisscrossed continents with ...
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America’s 19th Century Highway: The River
But with technological innovations such as the railroad, telegraph and steamboat ... Waters were the interstate highways of the early 19th-century United States. Many Americans earned their ...