What Does it Mean to be Digital?

The word “digital” is used in our daily lives, we use it to communicate, work, enjoy watching tv and plenty of other things. The term “digital” started from historical roots such as the Jacquard Loom, Morse Code and the telegraph. These three...

Project Starline

Compare the barriers to adoption for the Jacquard loom with the barriers to adoption of the telegraph. Are the barriers to adoption for Project Starline more like those for the Jacquard loom or those for the telegraph? ChatGPT 4 – 03/17/25 https://chatgpt.com/...

Whats Digital and Whats Not?

This post will be determining what objects and concepts are either digital or analog from what was learned in class so far. Early satellites started off as analog and went to digital as they got smaller. They primarily transmitted signals using continuous wave radio...

Telegraphs

Did you know that the early telegraphs used one wire for each letter of the alphabet, no one ever considered a code for each letter. The most expensive part of telegraph letters were the wires because of this. In 1774, the Telegraph used 24 wires!! Now thats a lot of...