Networking :
communicating with bodies and machines in the nineteenth century /
Laura Otis.
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| Summary: | "Placing current comparisons of nerve and computer networks in perspective, Otis explores early analogies linking nerves and telegraphs and demonstrates the influence that nineteenth-century neurobiologists, engineers, and fiction writers influenced each other's ideas about communication. Otis focuses simultaneously on literary works by such authors as George Eliot, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and Mark Twain and on the scientific and technological achievements of such pioneers as Luigi Galvani, Hermann von Helmholtz, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, and Werner von Siemens." -- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2011.
©2001. |
| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
| Series: | Studies in literature and science ;
[not identified]. |
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xiv, 268 pages ; 23 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9780472034901 |
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