Tom Standage's Life Before The Invention Of The Telegraph

The Victorian Internet

The magnificent discovery of the telegraph. The new development in communication technology, the telegraph which allowed people to almost communicate instantly covering up great distances. The author saw that the telegraph development was significantly more important than modern age internet. It was a boost to the global communication. In this book Standage is going to cover up the story from the early inventions in the field of communication up till the age of the internet. The life of the inventors

Tom Standage is journalist and author based in London, his specialty is the use of historical analogy in science technology and business writing. Tom Standage is dep-uty editor at The Economist, overseeing its strategy and output on digital platforms, including the web, apps and social media

The author presented the both sides in a fair way, but that did not mean that he did not present his ideological viewpoint, he thought that the invention of the telegraph was significantly more important and effective than the internet.

The life before the age of the telegraph was much slower, the news and events took a long time to spread and face a lot of difficulties which meant that it could take weeks or months to receive the

Local newspaper after the invention was able to share more stories from vari-ous other regions of the country. The telegraph opened a lot of new job and used skilled workers in the offices to code and decode the messages. As the original tele-graph line started between Washington and Baltimore the public did not support it, especially the religious leaders. Many of the congress men did not vote because they did not want to spend the public money on a machine that they could not un-derstand. But eventually it was put to a great use in the government and it also changed or transformed how the war was fought playing a big role in winning the