Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology
This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values—speed, efficiency, militarization,...
Main Author: | Toscano, Aaron A. (Author) |
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Corporate Author: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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Series: | SpringerBriefs in Sociology,
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Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
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