"Listen to the audio only of 20% of an episode of map men with the video minimised in a tab in the background" Also, seamlessly just mentioning the globes falling off the wall. Brilliant.
One thing I missed when I watched this the first time, is the fact that James Corden gets "exported" to the USA (10:17), and you see him get returned to the UK lmao
For me it was and will always be the printing press. What that ultimately led to just boggles the mind. To see how far we've come since then, who knows where we'll be in a mere 15 years. Or maybe even 25.
'Morse code' isn't actually a code, nor was it invented by Samuel Morse. It involved transmitting numbers that you translated in a special dictionary to find which word they represented. Morse's colleague, Alfred Vail, was the one created the idea of using dots and dashes to represent letters. This technically makes it a cipher, as a code replaces whole words with symbols, while a cipher replaces individual letters. Thus Morse Code is really Vail's Cipher. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tDov6hm8f2M.htmlsi=SAhfPKdpExD0GZMT&t=273
The Romans used semaphore to communicate over distances. This was in use on Hadrian's Wall, for exanple. Does that not count? Was the French system the first to use an alphabet, perhaps?
@@CorinneDunbar-ls3ejI saw the Roman semaphore on Adam Hart-Davis's TV series "What the Romans did for us". I can't find the episode. I'd like to know how semaphore could work without the invention of the spyglass (telescope) as the range would be limited, I would assume. I remember it as being an apparatus at each station with large wooden shutters which were open and closed in different positions.
Two technologies separate us from the Stone Age The train and electric telegraph and we could loss all electric technology if we have a giant solar flare , it could happen as it already has happened, google telegraph 1859 , if this event happens again, we are back in the Stone Age and maybe we would be better off ?. JH
