History is historical! and sometimes Hysterical! Most of the time though it is simply a point of view!
Now if you read the story of the invention of Telegraph (read Samuel Morse!) and how the first message was transmitted you would get goosebumps!
The first message was “What hath God wrought?”
Not to mention how SOS is now an amazing acronym to Save our soul!
All in bliss! Which is Ignorance!
By the way, that was not the first message! SOS does not have that acronym and more importantly Morse did not single handedly invent the telegraph!
I know! What would the quiz masters say! Now please do not shoot the messenger! If you want you can shoot the actual messenger! That is Bill Bryson who mentioned all this in his novel Made in America!
Now do not get me wrong (See if I care! actually I do!); the telegraph is an amazing invention!
The telegraph’s introduction had a profound impact on the media. Prior to the telegraph, news traveled slowly and relied on physical transportation methods, such as mail and messenger services. With the advent of the telegraph, journalists could send and receive news across long distances almost instantly.
The telegraph also gave rise to the concept of wire services. Agencies like the Associated Press and Reuters collected news stories from reporters and transmitted them to subscribing newspapers via telegraph wires!
The telegraph led news agencies to develop a concise and efficient writing style to convey information quickly and effectively. The inverted pyramid, where the most important information comes first and the additional details follow, became a standard. Journalists still use this writing style today! Of course whether they use it for telling the truth no one would know!
But (!!); the fact of the matter is that Mr Morse’s genius (or luck!) was is being at the right place at the right time!
In the early 19th century, he teamed up with Leonard D. Gale and Alfred Vail, a skilled machinist, to develop the electric telegraph. While Gale, a chemistry professor, advised Morse on the technical aspects, Vail financed the patents and helped improve the machine.
At the heart of the telegraph system was Morse code, which enabled efficient transmission of telegraph messages. Vail also helped Morse develop this system, which assigned a unique combination of dots and dashes to each letter and number! So even the code which bears his name was a joint effort!
Then you must know about joseph henry of Princeton the amazingly talented engineer! He mentored and developed the whole idea about the cables and the system! He even guided Morse on the theory and practical aspects of the transmission! He also stole a magnet crucial to long distance telegraphy invented by Louis Breguet!
Unfortunately after achieving success, Morse conveniently forgot about them! And so did the rest of the world! Until now that is!
The glorification of history (read distortion!) does not end here! The first words to be telegraphed were not “What hath God wrought?”
But it was actually ‘Everything worked well”! This was actually both practical and believable!
Then again he was taken down from the top of the communication pedestal soon enough by a BELL! Of course that is a spicy story for another blog!
Oh yeah! The SOS does not mean anything! It was practical!
The nine strokes which consists of three dots three dash and three dots were the most simple to learn and transmit! Now that’s just gold! Golden also is the prefix associated with Ganesh! His Mungaru Male is the GOAT!
Listen to anisutide and sleep!
–. — — -.. ……. -. .. –. …. – or da-da-dit da-da-dah da-da-dah da-di-dit di-di-di-di-di-di-dit da-dit di-dit da-da-dit di-di-di-dit dah
That’s good night in morse code!
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