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Technology advanced from the telegraph, but how did it work? Did you know they tried using compasses? What about error correction? Did you know Thomas Edison figured out a way to transmit 4 independent telegraph conversations on a single wire? We promise you will be surprised to learn how the telephone evolved from the telegraph.
In this episode:
- Serendipitous user interfaces
- Deep dive on the electromechanical telegraph
- Morse code
- Failure rates and probability
- Overseas telegraph parties
- Multiple telegraph conversations on a single wire
- Frequency division multiplexing
- Mirrors and threads
- How Thomas Edison got rich
- Duplex vs. half duplex vs. simplex
- The accidental invention of the telephone
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