Networking : communicating with bodies and machines in the nineteenth century

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Networking : communicating with bodies and machines in the nineteenth century

Title remainder

communicating with bodies and machines in the nineteenth century

Statement of responsibility

Laura Otis

Creator

• Otis, Laura, 1961-

Subject

• History
• Telecommunication -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "This new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communication technology. Laura Otis demonstrates that those roots are centuries old, not a modern conception. She shows how nineteenth-century neurobiologists, engineers, and fiction writers influenced each other's ideas about communication. Placing our own comparisons of nerve and computer networks in perspective, Otis explores their emergence in early analogies linking nerves and telegraphs."--Jacket
• "This new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communication technology. Laura Otis demonstrates that those roots are centuries old, not a modern conception. She shows how nineteenth-century neurobiologists, engineers, and fiction writers influenced each other's ideas about communication. Placing our own comparisons of nerve and computer networks in perspective, Otis explores their emergence in early analogies linking nerves and telegraphs."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Studies in literature and science

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

302.2

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

TK5102.2

LC item number

.O88 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Studies in literature and science