Paul Revere 4/18/1775?
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~1830 Joseph Henry,and Samuel Morse | In our history we wanted to communicate with one another by simply grunting or making mouth noises but then we eventually became concerned that we were
a long way apart from each other. Suddenly we realized that we had a real problem. How did we solve this problem? Where did this solution begin - and what’s next? |
| The American Indians used smoke signals. It also
began with whistles, sirens and drums. They were all louder than yelling but those revolutionary answers were a bit too limited or primitive. As you can see In that first picture a man called Paul Revere began our independence war with lantern signals[1] across the Charles river to warn farmers that an hour for our resistance was coming. Along came a lot of progressive items but there are also a few of things that changed a lot of people in America - and cohered to this blog’s theme. One of them was electricity(1800’s)[4]. The second item was the radio(1893)[5]and finally the electrical telegraph.(1831) [3] These things made a major progression in human communication. |
I wanted to mention one more little thing.
In about 1875 there were three guys named Hubbard, Sanders and Alexander Graham Bell who invented something they called a ”telephone” and a money making company called the Bell Telephone Company.[6] They thought that they could connect a lot of major American cities and Canada who started out by saying, “HELLO”. Eventually this initial company was bought by another one. Guess who?
In 1858 the Atlantic Telegraph Company laid the first transAtlantic telegraph and dreamed-of telephone cable that was to connect America and Europe[7] in much less time than the ten days for the ship to complete this mission. It was hailed as the start of the modern era of global communication. Ahem, this first try at long telephone cables lasted about a month before we over powered and fried the wires.
Employees learning
to climb telephone poles
More Modern Version |
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| Women like phones | Women liked to work too | Everyone - No coins | Earlier No dial |
| I call this the modern version because, well, I was alive. Did the modern phone appliances get more complex? When I was small, our family shared a single line with
all of our neighbors. Each family got your special ring of, for example, two ”shorts” and one long ring. No big deal.
Everyone could listen to your “own” call or everyone else’s. When I was a normal child about a hundred years ago I can still remember what my old phone number[9] was IVanhoe 7 – 2465. If I forgot it, I could look it up in that modern thing we called a “Telephone Directory Book”. But why did we need telephones? Just imagine, now we were identified simply by numbers. Referring to that picture of a telephone operator above. That operator was dealing with all of the customers in just the “IV” section. The number of customers would eventually increase numbers to an area code[10] instead. Notice also that there are a certain number of plugs that connect one hole to another and connected a phone call. What do you think happened if more than those twenty plugs tried to call at the same time? That is what we later called a “bummer”. That doesn’t occur these days when a lot more people try to connect to the internet. |
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| Call Collect on a cell phone? |
Now, Where does Clark Kent Change? |
If it breaks Call 411 |
New method for sibling yelling? |
Will kids ever get electronics for Christmas again? |
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| Freeway Phone Booth[8] |
Hotel Now WIFI is visible |
Getting better means getting smaller |
Call Phones all have a GPS too |
| Actress Jodie Foster was in a ’97 Contact movie. We still do that in every country.
Who in the hell do you think they are listening to now?
Numbers could always be bugged but originally it had to be a physical connection. When would radios marry phones intimately and confidentially? Human races were nearly always free to marry each other. So why wouldn’t the radios and cell phones and personal computers also marry each other to make a new babies’ style. They did. They will continue. Our cats and dogs already have their identities’ chips imbedded in their necks. Kids these days grow up with them and need them for their education, communication (once more) and their own entertainment. And they didn’t even have to talk any more. They could communicate with an abbreviated language all typed with one thumb. What’s next? An imbedded chip in our heads? Just something to think about. Someone wants to make a lot of money doing just that… I don’t. |
“P.S.”
| We always remember that TV shows or movies always provided phone numbers that always
were just 555-something.
Can you ever trust history stories? This picture was supposedly taken in the 50’s. Does she have a smiley face there? (Upper left) Is she an official Hippie? |
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