The Telegraph
During the Regency era, inventors and scientists in several countries were hard at work trying to devise a means of communicating at a distance. Their efforts led to early versions of both telegraphy and the facsimile machine The Telegraph Semaphore telegraph started a long time ago When Greek army commanders in 400 BC wanted to transmit a message across a distance without a horse and rider they used a signaling system devised by tactician, Aeneas Tacitus, which involved torches and water-filled pots synchronized in a convoluted manner between signal stations. According to the Greek historian [...]
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