Communication_At_A_Glance

Communication At A Glance The Beginning of Communication. The phone is easily one of man’s most important, useful and taken for granted inventions. It wonderfully extended the way man talks that are crucial to daily life. Before I tell of the history of how the telephone was constructed and put in to place, I will tell of the past of communications. Ever since the ability of language and written language, the most popular form of communication was done through a letter. Carrier pigeons were used in the Olympic games to send messages from 700 BC to 300 AD. In 1791, the Chappe brothers created the Semaphore system; they were two teens in France who wanted to be able to contact each other from their different school campuses. This system consisted of a pole with movable arms, which the positions took the place of letters of the alphabet. Two years later, this idea had caught on and was being used in France, Italy, Russia, and Germany. Two semaphore systems were built in the U.S. in Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard; soon Congress was asked to fund a project for a semaphore system running from New York City to New Orleans. Samuel Morse told Congress that not to bell, telephone, company, att, telegraph, patent, system, phone, union, new, western, voice, two, thomas, out, hubbard, house, able, device, alexander, wires, watson, very, patents, over, numbers, before, became, american, after, about, 1876, work, way, soon, sanders