The goal of this weblog is to have a convenient place to clip and publish bits of telegraph related history and arcana. It is organized chronologically, in the sense that there are categories that correspond to decades, with the clippings filed away to the proper decade.
The blog is not particularly active, but occasionally I remember something that should be here and I put it here.
Some relatively large pool of material to draw from comes from the delicious tag telegraphy, the pinboard tag t:telegraphy, and the vast pre-1922 word hoard of Google Books on telegraphy.
At various times this effort has been the backing store for project work, including an invited talk at UPA 2009 entitled "WYSSA Means "All My Love, Darling": A Social History of the Internet from the Carrier Pigeon to Antarctic Morse Code".
The Peninsula Telegraph-Recorder, I suspect, would make a good name for a newspaper, with a suitably ancient heritage, and considerably ambiguity about which peninsula is referenced.
Comments