On May 24th 1844 the very first Morse telegram went over the line. Samuel Morse and his colleague Alfred Vail knew that the very first phrase to be sent with the new telecommunication medium was to be remembered. So what should they transmit? Morse came up with a quote from the bible, certainly well chosen for an historic occasion like this:
"What God had wrought"
sent by Morse in Washington to Alfred Vail at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad "outer depot" in Baltimore.
Today 199 years ago, the first (modern) optical telegraph line following the mechanical telegraphy system of the French inventor Claude Chappe was established between Metz and Mainz was established. No, this wasn't the first of its kind, but it was the first to connect the former already in France established telegraphy system with a (now) German city.
Giles Hattersley, writing in today's Times, bemoans the inaccuracy of Wikipedia. Regular readers of this blog will know that I disagree completely but that's not why I'm writing. Giles writes: "My entry features at least two errors, one libellous (unless my mother has been keeping a dark secret, I am not Roy Hattersley's son)." Yet I can't find an entry for Giles Hattersley in Wikipedia. And, as Martin Belam points out, it doesn't look like there has ever been one.
At Sotheby’s on Tuesday an anonymous bidder bought a bull in a tank of formaldehyde for £10.3million. The world’s most expensive cut of beef was cooked up, inevitably, by the artist Damien Hirst, whose “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” sale of 223 new works fetched £111.5million, a record for an auction dedicated to one artist. The illustrious Australian art critic Robert Hughes, however, isn’t buying the hype.
Zum Redesign des Telegraph. Jede Seite als potentielle Startseite. Traffic kommt mehr über Aggregatoren als über Homepage. Die Aufenthaltslänge ist wichtiger als die Anzahl der User.
P. Sastry, P. Krishnaiah, P. Rao, and D. Vathsal. International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication, 3 (1):
264--267(January 2015)