The Telegraph, Part 2

The Telegraph (2): Erasing Time, Compressing Space Presentation by Mindy McAdams Week 8.2 / MMC 2265

Electricity and Magnetism ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Britain’s Electrical Telegraph ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Britain’s Electrical Telegraph (2) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The First Telegraph ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

First U.S. Telegraph Line ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Pony Express ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

A demand to link the U.S. coasts ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

1861: Transcontinental railroad completed

Let’s roll back to 1832, before Wheatstone and Cooke and their little experiment in England …

Samuel F. B. Morse ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Morse’s Hardware ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Morse Code ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Flashback to ancient Sumer and cuneiform: How efficient is the Latin alphabet? How has it helped the western world to advance?

After Years of Rejection ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Commodities and Futures ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Commodities and Futures (2) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Linking the Old World and the New World

Transatlantic Cable ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Laying undersea cable in the 1800s

Transatlantic Cable (2) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

2,700 miles of cable from Ireland to Newfoundland

Transatlantic Cable (3) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Transatlantic Cable (4) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Writer Arthur C. Clarke described the laying of the transatlantic cable as the Victorian equivalent of putting a man on the moon

The Telegraph (2): Erasing Time, Compressing Space Presentation by Mindy McAdams University of Florida

The Telegraph, Part 2

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