History of Telecommunications
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History Of Telecommunications
As it all began back in the prehistoric times, there has been methods of communications over large distances. Early methods would include fire signals, homing pigeons, mirror signals and of course, the basic messenger. All of these are simple but yet complicated was to tell messages. With all forms of communication these must be present: a source (or message), something or someone to send it, a place to receive it, something or someone to receive it.
With colonies starting across the country, people needed more reliable ways to communicate. In 1639, the first official note of a postal service in the colonies appeared. The General Court of Massachusetts designated a tavern in Boston as the official collection of mail brought from or sent overseas. In 1775, members of the Second Continental Congress agreed that a Postmaster General would be appointed. This meant across the beginning nation that mail carries would form monthly routes between cities and towns
The first and most useful form of telecommunication came in the early 1800s, which is none other than the telegraph. The telegraph printed codes from someone who could have a concept of how to work the telegraph keys. Later this method was changed by not printing, but to learn Morse by ear. Skilled Morse users could send 40 to 50 words per minute.
It wasnt until 1850, that the project was used by train dispatchers and some towns that had the transition wire fed to them. Over the next 100 years towns relied more on this form of communication. And for good reason the allowable words per minute increased. At the end of the telegraph, it was possible to have 72 transitions per minute.
After Alexander Graham Bells invention of the telegraph and as improvements were to be made, the telephone was invented. The telephone was a way to communicate electrically . It was established so that two people may talk over telephone wires, built from town to town. As the cables went through the town people who bought one of the machines was to connect theirs to the box outside of their houses (to the wires running through town.)
Sometime after Bells telephone, came the photo-phone which used light to capture the senders message and send it to the receiver and have the message turn back into his voice. Although bell had trouble protecting