Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Express Mail, Claude Chappe, Smoke Signal
29 Oct 2016
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They can share the knowledge because there are words and pictures if they are not literate. He is a democratic watchdog: he tries to keep the government to account. We have been talking about how physical things with messages get moved (clay tablets, papyrus, etc. ), even newspapers had to be physically moved (transportation model) Paris-toulon 760km: how long to send message: can(cid:495)t work at night, when the weather is bad. It is erratic in terms of its capability: it is faster than physically transmitting things. Primarily used for military purposes: napoleonic wars. Nationalism/nation state: sweden, russia, spain, prussia (1830s, they typically didn(cid:495)t go beyond borders. Software: morse code: dots/dashes linked to alphabet, another example of the alphabet being more helpful. Rapid growth in miles of telegraph cable: 1846: 40, 185: 12,000, 1865: 37,000 (us) Pony express: 1860-61, 10 days, mo to ca.
