Yep, that's where I stumbled onto this. The Victorian Internet was fun but way too short. A few chapters in David Nasaw's Andrew Carnegie and Edmund Morris's E

Yep, that's where I stumbled onto this. The Victorian Internet was fun but way too short. A few chapters in David Nasaw's Andrew Carnegie and Edmund Morris's Edison go into telegraph history a bit. I got into the subject after reading both those books (they both got their start as telegraph operators), and noticing the similarity in meritocracy and culture between programmers today and telegraph operators back then. I'd love to read more. Two other books on my list are Lincoln In The Telegraph Office (1907) and Submarine Telegraphy (1898). All the in-depth books on the telegraph seem to have been written 100 years ago basically.