Tom Standage

Tom Standage

Tom Standage (* 1969 ) is an English science editor and author who writes on historical topics.

Tom Standage studied mechanical engineering and computer science in Oxford . He has since worked for The Guardian , The Daily Telegraph, and other newspapers and magazines. Today he is an editor at The Economist .

Tom Standage lives in Greenwich with his wife and children . He plays the drums .

Works

• The Victorian Internet . - Midas-Verlag , St. Gallen, 1999. ISBN 3-907100-72-7
• The Neptune Files . The adventurous story of the discovery of the 8th planet. Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-593-36676-2 .
• The Turk . The story of the first chess machine and its adventurous journey around the world. Campus-Verl., Frankfurt / Main, 2002. ISBN 3-593-36677-0 .
• Six drinks that moved the world . - Artemis & Winkler , Düsseldorf, 2006. ISBN 3-538-07234-5 ISBN 978-3-538-07234-3
• You are what you eat. How our food changed the world, translated from the English by Michael Schmidt; Artemis & Winkler Verlag, Mannheim 2010 ISBN 978-3-538-07290-9 .
• Writing on the Wall: Social Media — The First 2,000 Years . London: Bloomsbury, 2013. ISBN 1620402831 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Tom Standage in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage