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... the first 200 years

• Ian Graham
• www.iangraham.org

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(hi)storytechnologyevolutioninnovation
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25 December, 1763b. Claude Chappe
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14 July, 1789
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• 2 March, 1791
• "si vous réussissez, vous serez bientôt couverts
  de gloire"

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• 3 bits/sec (2?6 words/min) 1400 km/h

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1840
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WAN

• ... short message from Amsterdam to Venice in one
  hour (1600 kph). A horse messenger would need a
  month to do the same.
• Military, government, some commercial use
• Did send lottery tickets numbers, though.

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• telegraph
• semaphore
• control codes

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1837
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• 1 January 1845
• ...he is in the garb of a kwaker with a brown
  coat on which reaches....

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Culture

• coded messages --AB BFT CK IF CHN ATE
• social networking
• technology subculture
• Monopoly (Western Union)

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The 1891 World Network
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and circa 1914
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Mr Watson, come here I want to see you
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• What use, he asked pleasantly, could this
  company make of an electrical toy?
• President Orton, of Western Union, refusing a
  100,000 plea to purchase the Bell telephone
  company assets.

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Explosive Growth
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