Since medieval times civilization has tried to come up with a way to communicate long distances quickly and efficiently, people had used flags and hand signals to talk, but there was a key limitation, it would only work if people could see each other. During the industrial revolution big businesses and factories were being created all over England and Europe. Was there a way for people to interact with other cities or even other countries? Something was needed to answer the demand for rapid communication, for the new, emerging railroads, newspapers, factories and offices. The device that allowed people to communicate without seeing each other, was developed first in the early 1830s and was named telegraph from Greek, tele meaning far away, …show more content…
As communities were not too far away from each other, simple methods such as smokes and flag signals were quite enough, as societies grew and people moved further away the need for faster and long distance communication grew as well, people trained pigeons for this purpose, in China, the Navy would communicate with very intricate flag signals (Lunde 30), during the French revolution, a machine called the semaphore was in use, which was a windmill with two arms, the upper arms indicated a page, the lower, a line. The receiver would flip to that page in the book and see the word (Ebsco Host). Communities expanded, the need for faster and long distance communication grew further and further and the demand for faster and longer distance communication had also grew in line with this expansion so, new devices were developed throughout history to meet this demand. The Industrialization in England and America had started in between the years of 1820-1940, which resulted in growth, of population in cities and in mass production. As urbanization and economies grew the need for long distance, faster communication grew