Wednesday, 28 May 2014

The History Of Telecommunications Tulsa OK

By Marci Glover


Before the industrial revolution, the only form of communication could only happen when the communicators were physically close to each other. In order for people to communicate over longer distances, they used traditional methods such as the drum beating and smoke. Telecommunications Tulsa OK started to emerge in the early 1840s which came along with new and better ways of transmitting messages between individuals.

Telegraphy, telephony and electronic mail were the initial methods to be discovered which promised a faster and efficient method of communication. Messages were transported from one point to another using small electrical pulse which were encoded and decoded at the start and end points. The electrical pulses were carried through copper wires which had first been laid down between the USA and the Great Britain.

The main aim of laying a communication link between USA and the Great Britain was to facilitate an easy communication between the president of USA called James Buchanan and the queen of Great Britain known as Victoria. For this reason, the project could not afford to fail at all costs since the communication between the two leaders was deemed very important.

These cables did not work as expected and could not be depended upon to offer reliable communication. This was a huge setback and loss considering the huge amounts invested. This called for more efforts to ensure a dependable channel of communication was set up. The two countries remained committed to the course, and the breakthrough was made in 1956 when the first telephone line linking the USA to The great Britain was successfully put in place.

In the year 1792, a French scientist Claude Chappe designed a communication system which would transmit messages from one place to another. The system had two high towers that were located a distance of six miles away from each other. The operators would be located at the top of these towers. The operators would receive the message and transmit it to the next tower. The transmission was via semaphores. This system was only used up to 1880 when the telegraph system of communication was widely accepted as a powerful tool for communication.

The first telegraphs using electrical wires was invented by Sir Fothergill, Sir Charles Wheatstone. This was an improvement to the already existing telegraphy. The earlier versions of telegraph were based on electromagnetic technology.

By now, the rapid changes had set the communication industry on a favorable path that would later lead it to its extraordinary growth. As the 20th century set in, wireless method of communication was discovered which went a long way in ensuring that people from far apart geographical locations could still communicate without laying copper cables between them which was not only costly, but tedious.

In conclusion, the world of today is heavily dependent on the communication industry since most of the day to day activities nowadays require people to constantly communicate. This is not to mean that the communication industry has stopped growing because numerous forms of communications are being discovered daily. This has made the world a very small place since people from far apart continents can now converse as if they are in the same room. This has only been made possible by the efforts of past scientists whose projects are being used as guidelines of coming up with even better methods of communication.




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