Genealogy Journey's Podcast #50: Telegraph and Telegraphy

Post Office Engineers inspect Marconi's equipment on Flat Holm, May 1897, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#/media/File:Post_Office_Engineers.jpg

Let's talk about our ancestor's communications, some of which we still use today. 

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Resources

Book referenced: Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet, New York: Bloomsbury, 1998, 2013

YouTube explanation & demonstration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsDk5_bktFo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID6r4-2_0bc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJtJve1Aqu8

Conversion tools/translators

http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/morse-code/

https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html

https://morsecode.scphillips.com/morse2.html

http://jhbunnell.com/morsecode.shtml

History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Morse_code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-technology-that-allowed-the-titanic-survivors-to-survive/255848/

http://marconigraph.com/titanic/wireless/mgy_wireless.html

http://www.environmentalhistory.org/revcomm/features/radio-and-the-titanic/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Radiotelegraph_Convention_(1912)

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/International_Radiotelegraph_Convention_(1912).html

https://earlyradiohistory.us/sec023.htm

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_%C3%98rsted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_telegraphy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_wave

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/history-of-the-u-s-telegraph-industry/

http://nearfieldcommunication.org/history-of-the-telegraph.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science-and-technology/computers-and-electrical-engineering/electrical-engineering/telegraph

https://www.loc.gov/collections/samuel-morse-papers/articles-and-essays/collection-highlights/invention-of-the-telegraph/

https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/forgotten-history-alfred-vail-and-samuel-morse

Ham, or Amateur, Radio Info

http://www.ve3rhj.net/splitrail/intro.htm

http://www.advancedspecialties.net/ham-radio-faq.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_licensing_in_the_United_States

Alternative communication in disasters

http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-volunteers-aiding-storm-ravaged-puerto-rico-us-virgin-islands

http://www.arrl.org/hurricane-maria-2017

http://www.arrl.org/hurricane-harvey-response

http://www.arrl.org/hurricane-irma-2017

http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-volunteer-response-continues-to-historic-hurricane-irma

Map of telegraph stations, ca 1853

 http://www.telegraph-history.org/map2.htm

--Jean Wilcox Hibben