THE NEPTUNE FILE (PENGUIN PRESS SCIENCE S.)

Science & Math

TOM STANDAGE

Astronomy & Space Science

Penguin Books, Ltd.

<p>2002. xiv, 273 pages. Original cloth. Dust wrapper. 20,5 x 13,5 cm. The story of the remarkable and chequered career of the extraordianary mechanical man, who became known as the Turk, who was capable of playing chess.</p>

The Mechanical Turk: The Magic and Mechanism of the Notorious Chess-Playing Machine

History

Penguin

The Neptune File - Planet Detectives and the Discovery Of Worlds Unseen

Biographies & Memoirs

Allen Lane/The Penguin Press

The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-playing Machine That Fooled the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Allen Lane.

A History of the World in Six Glasses

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Walkr & Company,2005

<p>Beginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the other of a chain of two hundred monks, Tom Standage tells the story of the spread of the telegraph and its transformation of the Victorian world. The telegraph was greeted by all the same concerns, hype, social panic and excitement that now surround the Internet, and Standage provides both a fascinating insight into the past and a context in which to think rather differently of today's concerns. Standage has a wonderful prose style and an excellent eye for the telling and engaging story. Popular history at its best.</p>

The Victorian Internet

Professionals & Academics

Phoenix Books

Victorian Internet

World

Walker Co

Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Cicero's Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. Standage traces the story of the rise, fall and rebirth of social media over the past 2,000 years offering an illuminating perspective on the history of media, and revealing that social networks do not merely connect us today - they also link us to the past.

Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years

Bloomsbury Publishing

Turk, The: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine

Berkley Publishing Group

Brief History of Motion

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