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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12352973.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. The Language of the Nerves -- Ch. 2. The Metaphoric Web -- Ch. 3. The Webs of Middlemarch -- Ch. 4. The Language of the Wires -- Ch. 5. Two Telegraphers Unhappy with Their Nerves -- Ch. 6. A Web without Wires -- Conclusion: Wired Thoughts.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 268 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Networking.".
- catalog identifier "0472112139 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Networking.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in literature and science".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Networking.".
- catalog subject "302.2 21".
- catalog subject "TK5102.2 .O88 2001".
- catalog subject "Telecommunication History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. The Language of the Nerves -- Ch. 2. The Metaphoric Web -- Ch. 3. The Webs of Middlemarch -- Ch. 4. The Language of the Wires -- Ch. 5. Two Telegraphers Unhappy with Their Nerves -- Ch. 6. A Web without Wires -- Conclusion: Wired Thoughts.".
- catalog title "Networking : communicating with bodies and machines in the nineteenth century / Laura Otis.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".