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 moderni
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Aaron A. Toscano
Marconi’s Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology
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Assoc. Prof. Aaron A. Toscano Department of English University of North Carolina 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte NC 28223-0001 USA
ISSN 2212-6368 ISBN 978-94-007-3976-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-3977-2
e-ISSN 2212-6376 e-ISBN 978-94-007-3977-2
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This book is dedicated to my parents
Acknowledgments
Just as no technology is created in a vacuum, no book is written without the influence of others. I would like to thank the following individuals for their support: Debra Journet, Mary Rosner, Aaron Jaffe, Dennis Hall, Avery Kolers, Alan Golding, Suzette Henke, Mark West, Malin Pereira, Jeffrey Leak, and my friends and colleagues at both the University of Louisville and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Additionally, I have to thank my Springer representatives, Miranda Dijksman, Esther Otten, Myriam Poort, and Hendrikje Tuerlings, for seeing this book through to publication. I might be missing some others and, for that oversight, I do apologize. I also fe
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