Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Pasley, Royal Engineers, 1823
Somewhere about here is where telecommunication started
the 19th century,
the 19th century,
. . . . and then came the electric telegraph -
and this is about where it ended the century.
British Post Office engineers inspect Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraphy (radio) equipment, during a demonstration on Flat Holm island, 13 May 1897. This was the world's first demonstration of the transmission of radio signals over open sea, between Lavernock Point and Flat Holm Island, a distance of 3 miles.
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The following pages will attempt to show how Jamaica's
telecommunications fared in that intervening century.
telecommunications fared in that intervening century.
Footnote: Whatever was Edison's 'megaphone?
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