Telegram – what is it?

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The Telegram That the word may conjure up the image of a yellowed tattered paper containing the message about some distant historical events that are not closely related to the modern world. However, many methods currently in use for communication, can be regarded as the direct descendants of telegrams.

Significance

To study the history and evolution of telegrams and human communication in General, to start with equipment with which sent telegrams, – from the Telegraph. Its name comes from Greek and means "writing at a distance". If you look at the meaning of this term in the dictionary, there it is written, that the Telegraph – apparatus for transmitting messages at a distance.

electrical Telegraph

A Little history

The Way of information transmission at a distance has been with us ever since, as people learned to make fire. For example, beacons were lit on the towers of the great wall of China to warn of invaders. Yes, and in more complex situations was used fire. For example, in 150 BC, Greek historian Polybius invented the alphabetic system of signals via the pairs of torches, but this method has not received wide distribution.

Indeed, not yet over the 18th century, as came to light the first network communication as the precursor to the electric Telegraph. Claude Chappe invented a system of semaphore relay stations, which send messages by means of movable rods placed on top of the tower. Like many technological innovations, its inventions were used primarily by the military. Napoleon, for example, used it to coordinate the movement of their armies.

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In Russia, a pioneer in the field of telegrams in the Russian language was Paul Schilling. It was he who in 1832 created the Telegraph, which was introduced in the same year. And in the United States of America, the first telegram sent in Morse, in whose honor and was named the Telegraph alphabet. It happened in 1844.

Until 1852 in Russia we used the optical Telegraph, which was distributed only by three lines, that is, not covered the whole territory. But in 1854 the electric Telegraph have completely supplanted his older brother. But with optical to the end and not parted: until now it is used on the railway.

teletype Ribbon

Appearance and contents of the telegram

The First devices just took the text and printed it on a thin tape, which is pasted on the sheet. Then, in the 80-ies, in our world came teletypes. They are allowed to print the transferred the text onto sheets of paper. Then you could send a congratulatory telegram and – sheet with text just pasted on a postcard.

As reported through telegrams? Usually they were sent to communicate something important, to inform about a pleasant event or to bring the tragic news to greet them. Now, with the development of digital technologies, the telegram has lost its relevance.


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