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Telegraph Legal Battles

tags:: #Memex2 #Lecture

  • The idea of a network was relatively new, by the end of the 19th century
  • Telegraph network
    • Rail network
    • Gas network
    • Water network
    • Sewage network
  • Electrical networks were upcoming
  • Graham Bell, first Bell company, founded in 1875
  • Bells new vision of point to point rather than pairs
  • It was a slow roll out for the telephone 
  • What is Canada doing?
  • All the legal battles start coming to an end
  • American Bell establishes long distance line between NY and Boston
  • Creates a company to do this, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
  • Bell wins patents and is making a lot of money when the economy is in a depression (1888)
  • Many independents are created which bell fights legally
  • Most cities had two companies
  • Vacuum tubes → turns a weak current into a strong current
  • Redundancy is key to understanding information theory
  • Claude Shannon 1948 developed a way to think about a message being composed of the content and information