How the Telegraph Changed Communication

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  • Опубликовано: 14 май 2018
  • In this edition of Flashback, see how the telegraph set the stage for today’s smartphones.

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  • @BrianPW1
    @BrianPW1 2 года назад +15

    At 2minutes 17 seconds in this video delighted to see photo showing 3 Post Office Engineers (standing right is my great grandfather, Joseph William Willmot, Superintendent and Inventor) experimenting with signals across open water in Cardiff, Wales, 1897. He helped Marconi tune his equipment under the authority of Sir William Preece (Engineer-in-Chief of the Post Office Telegraph) UK.

    • @Itskahuny
      @Itskahuny 2 года назад +2

      That's honestly a very unique and interesting piece of history your Great Grandfather played a part in. I'm happy that you were lucky enough to find such a one of a kind photo of him from this video. I was just talking to an older friend of mine (he's around 70) and he was telling me about a friend he has back in his college days that randomly came to mind today and how he hadn't thought about him in decades. I asked for his name and told him to give me a few minutes and within ten or so minutes was able to track him down online and find his Facebook profile. My friend who was curious about him and where he ended up in life was just beside himself amazed with the speed and ease of my finding him. It had me thinking a lot today about how I have had such technological tools available to me since I was a child and how much we all take for granted the interconnection and information availability that we all share. To me, this small search and discovery of his present whereabouts was just normal occurrence and so unimpressive, but to someone who has not been exposed to the tools we have available all around us for their whole life, it was not only amazing but completely appreciated for the implications which to me seemed trivial.

    • @BrianPW1
      @BrianPW1 2 года назад +1

      @@Itskahuny Thank you for your comment. I did not find the 'photo' in this video. I 'recognised' the photo from the collection (where my g-grandfather's achievements are listed) amassed by BTArchives UK. I have distributed it to other individuals/organisations as well. It has also been shown as part of a BBC programme about Marconi.

  • @lorisreality8681
    @lorisreality8681 3 года назад +31

    I played this video for my daughter. We're learning in homeschool for science about the history of inventions that operate for communication. One of them is the telegraph.

    • @julioreginald3836
      @julioreginald3836 3 года назад +1

      i guess it is kinda off topic but do anyone know of a good place to stream new movies online?

    • @cybertaiga9534
      @cybertaiga9534 2 года назад

      Splendid! Glad to hear! :-)

    • @AB-ComeLordJesus
      @AB-ComeLordJesus 2 года назад

      We are homeschooling also and are learning about the telegraph.

  • @rmo8201
    @rmo8201 3 года назад +7

    im here for history class

  • @andershattne
    @andershattne 10 месяцев назад +2

    What I wanted to know us how the messages arrive to its designated receiver. Where there connection hubs or similar?

  • @kylecarmean3127
    @kylecarmean3127 2 года назад +2

    If the line between two stations is cut would the operators know or will they only realize something is wrong when there is no response?

  • @cozakokotano6448
    @cozakokotano6448 2 года назад +2

    Looking at this and at internet today makes me astonished, how human over the ages made use of the Rays to deliver a message which is phone now.

  • @LiotaR
    @LiotaR 3 года назад +1

    this is super cool

  • @user-se8to2lg5v
    @user-se8to2lg5v Год назад

    He said that because he had lots of patents relating static current, so he did not express what he really thought.

  • @prosiescoteau2152
    @prosiescoteau2152 5 лет назад +10

    I wonder how much Hickey Metal Fabrication paid for all 30 of the views this video has.

    • @shrimpflea
      @shrimpflea 4 года назад

      No much I bet and probably a package deal with other videos.

    • @Digital111
      @Digital111 3 года назад +1

      It's got over 24,000 views now.

  • @damaniak7880
    @damaniak7880 3 года назад +9

    Anyone here from ss class?

  • @Metacognition88
    @Metacognition88 Год назад

    I have a shrine of Claude Shannon in my condo.

  • @jonpaton4449
    @jonpaton4449 3 года назад +1

    Now I see quantum computing will also mean quantum communications

  • @naota3k
    @naota3k Год назад

    Wow. 0:18 this might be the _most_ incorrect prediction, ever. LOL

  • @tradingbull007
    @tradingbull007 Год назад

    Great video

  • @rogerkreil3314
    @rogerkreil3314 3 года назад +1

    So probably only a few people knew how to use them! 😛

  • @user-vg7jc7hy6z
    @user-vg7jc7hy6z 2 года назад +1

    Want something Invent it