MDSA02H3 Chapter Notes -Submarine Communications Cable, Penny Press, Punched Tape

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Chapter 14: the growth of the telegraph network was explosive. The most important commercial transactions occurred several hundred miles apart. Telegraph was not so readily embraced in britain. Transcontinental telephone line between the us and cali showed the superiority. Rival companies created competition: the telegraph service was only used by the rich because it was expensive. Once the message was delivered through the spoke to the the recipient, a messenger boy delivered the message directly to the intended location. Young men were eager to become messenger boys because it was a stepping stone to greater things. Thomas edison and andrew carnegie were messenger boys: listening to the clicking of the apparatus rather than reading the dots and dashed on the paper tape soon became the practice; this was morse"s apparatus. All telegraph of ces on a branch line shared one wire: prussia and austria had the rst interconnection so that messages could be sent from.

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