Information Theory part 4: Semaphores & signal fires
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451History of the telegraph from the signal fire to 18th Century semaphore lines. We visit ideas of Polybius, Aeneas Tactius, Sushruta, Francis Bacon, Robert Hooke and others.
References:
Communications: An International History of the Formative Years (Burns)
Understanding Media (McLuhan)
The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Shannon)
The Histories (Polybius)
translation link: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/home.html)
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