MDSB05H3 Midterm: MDSB05 Study Guide Midterm.docx
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Lecture 1: communications arm of empire a historical overview. International communication networks have developed largely in response to, and at the same time been shaped by, the needs of economic, military and political powers. The third world and the search for an equitable international communication order. 1866: the first commercially successful transatlantic telegraph lines were laid. 1870: the telegraph lines from britain to india were connected. 1902: the first telegraph line across pacific was completed. System by which a sender sends messages to a receiver in distance by using a coding system that both the sender and receiver understand. Info no longer needed to be physically carried, it became independent. A reconfiguration of time and space due to the electrical telegraph. Great wall of china ex: they used smoke and fire to signal. 1837: samuel morse invented the electrical telegraph. Between 1850-end of 19 century, the world got connected with telegraph lines.
