Analog by Robert Hassan

Author:Robert Hassan [Hassan, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Analog; retro technology; analog-digital; print culture; Industrial Revolution; technology evolution; human-machine interaction; philosophy of science; Enlightenment; automation; technological alienation; capitalism; modernity
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2022-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

Telegraphy: “Everything Nowadays Is Ultra”

Telegraphy means “writing at a distance.” In this it follows the path of the analog-human connection that began with the invention of cuneiform. And like cuneiform writing it transformed existing human affairs, setting them once more upon a new path with unanticipated consequences. The telegraph is analog in the classical physics sense in that it has relations of continuity or flow. And writing at a distance is made possible through a continuous signal that is carried from point to point over a dedicated wire. The initial objective of a working telegraph was to translate the electrical wave into a communication, a message to be transmitted, received, and understood. Experiments took an important step in 1816 when Francis Ronalds sent a message down a continuous 13-kilometer wire strung back and forth between two large wooden frames set up in his London back garden. By means of an ingenious alphanumeric device, the signal was coded and translated into language through a rotating alphanumeric dial at each end of the wire.

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