%0 Journal Article %T When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. By Carolyn Marvin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ix + 269 pp. $34.50.) %A Rudolph, Richard, H. %J The Journal of American History %V 75 %N 4 %P 1348-1349 %@ 0021-8723 %D 1989-03-01 %I Oxford University Press %~ DeepDyve