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minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-24 months ago and sending or receiving them required no training. If you mean paying someone to send them, then sure. But it required learning Morse code, and learning to use a keyer. You couldn’t send them overseas until after the invention of radio. Before that the signal traveled along a wire they laid the transatlantic cable.
minus-squareremus989@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 months agoThe first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid down in 1854 and radio waves weren’t even theorized until 1873… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio#History
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoI had no idea radio was such a recent discovery.
minus-squareremus989@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoNo worries, we can’t all know everything all the time.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI kinda suspected I might be wrong about that as I was typing it, and then I was like “Nah! That’s just silly. Of course they didn’t run a cable across the entire Atlantic Ocean in the 1800’s!”. But I was wrong. That’s actually really impressive.
minus-squaretiredofsametab@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoDuring a short window, a samurai could’ve faxed president Lincoln (though I believe the samurai and Lincoln would have had to be in the same country)
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThe only way you were keying in a telegram yourself is if you worked for them.
If you mean paying someone to send them, then sure. But it required learning Morse code, and learning to use a keyer.
You couldn’t send them overseas until after
the invention of radio. Before that the signal traveled along a wirethey laid the transatlantic cable.The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid down in 1854 and radio waves weren’t even theorized until 1873… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio#History
I had no idea radio was such a recent discovery.
Whoops!
No worries, we can’t all know everything all the time.
I kinda suspected I might be wrong about that as I was typing it, and then I was like “Nah! That’s just silly. Of course they didn’t run a cable across the entire Atlantic Ocean in the 1800’s!”. But I was wrong. That’s actually really impressive.
During a short window, a samurai could’ve faxed president Lincoln (though I believe the samurai and Lincoln would have had to be in the same country)
The only way you were keying in a telegram yourself is if you worked for them.