The Urbane Forager
At this time, we look at ninety years of electrical telegraphy before Morse. The University of Houston’s School of Engineering presents this sequence concerning the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The primary system that didn’t require expert technicians to operate, was Sir Charles Wheatstone’s ABC system in 1840 where the letters of the alphabet have been organized round a clock-face, and the sign induced a needle to point the letter. This early system required the receiver to be present in real time to document the message and it reached speeds of up to 15 phrases a minute.
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