Amazing Communications
This entry was posted on 7/10/2006 2:48 PM and is filed under Telecommunications.
(Originally entered 5/25/2006)
A few of months ago was the 130th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's first successful experiment with the telephone. On that fateful day in 1876 Bell spoke into the mouthpiece of his as yet unproven invention and called to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson using the now famous words, "Mr. Watson. Come here. I want to see you." Watson heard and understood him. Though subsequent experiments weren't as clearly understood, that was the beginning of an incredible change in the way we communicate. But now, instead of over a metal wire strung from one room to another, our wires circle the globe. The "wires" much of our communication now travels through are in fact strands of glass thinner than a human hair. And a lot of our telephone conversations now take place traveling through no wires at all!
