[CW] Interesting Podcast about Samuel F. B. Morse and Morse Code

[Richard Knoppow]

    This is an interesting summary of the history of the 
telegraph. I will add only that the desire to get rid of the 
human element in transmission continued. Eventually Western Union 
and other telegraph companies mechanized the system almost 
completely. The initial attempts at a printing telegraph 
culminated with the Teletype although one could stretch it to the 
vary e-mail we are using now. The Morse/Vail code had the great 
advantage of not needing the machinery. I am glad you stress that 
the telegraph, including wireless telegraph, operated on human 
intelligence.
    BTW, Western Union was the first nationwide company. I can't 
give a citation for this because it is lost in my memory but I 
determined it was accurate when I first saw it pointed out.
    I have not looked at the pod cast. I once attended a lecture 
on motion picture sound (a special interest of mine) by an 
authority who kept saying "single" for signal. It didn't really 
matter, some people are just not good public speakers.

On 8/4/2021 10:35 AM, Chris R. NW6V wrote:
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> Hi Dave et al.
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> I listened to the podcast, and here is the review I posted:
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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL