History Of Telecommunications

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drum telegraph which was that of the "Tamtam". This was a big, free hanging, circular metal plate. The keystroking, as it is called, of this plate would create a far-reaching audible tone. This is the drum telegraph and the start of telecommunication.

Fire Signaling

Fire signaling is another part of the telecommunication family. Also, the old Greece and the
Roman Empire already posses a good organized telegraph system. Fire signaling was sited from mountain to mountain or from tower to tower. Especially sensible was a torch telegraph, which was invented about 2500 years ago. The receiving and transmitting station that was built of two separate walls, which were placed on hilltops. Each one had a place where to set the torch between each station. This is how they communicated at night. It could take as many as 173 torches to send a simple 4 or 5 word message.

Smoke Signaling

Smoke signaling was used by the Indians. They used smoke signaling to ...

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preparations were made to expand the lines out into Philadelphia, New York, Boston and to other cities and areas. Not all people were excited or even cared about this invention. Some of the farmers in a Kentucky town destroyed the lines in 1849. These farmers said that the wire would remove the electricity from the air so it would not rain and their crops would suffer.

1866: THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH

Twenty-two years after the first telegraph line-between Washington and Baltimore, as I briefly explained earlier, was the first successful lying of an ocean telegraph, the Atlantic cable of 1866. This marked the beginning of a new era of telecommunications.
1845 laid the ...

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