A Brief History of the Telegraph

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/7wVxhgrMyafyKQ

by oldjavacoder • 4 years ago

10 6 4 years ago

artsandculture.google.com

I saw a picture of a stretch of road in the west and started thinking about the 1800's and the striking contrast between the wild and the technological American landscape. It turns out Google has an interesting site, linked.

bediger40003• 4 years ago

There were optical telegraphs before electrical: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

"The Early History of Data Networks" is a good read on the topic: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Early_History_of_Da...

oldjavacoder3• 4 years ago

That's a mind blower, I did not know about it thank you.

bediger40003• 4 years ago

The coding for the optical telegraphs seemed primitive to me. I wonder if you couldn't come up with a system that mixed signals going both ways.

A Brief History of the Telegraph

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