Episode 6: Telecommunications part 2, onward to the telephone

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