morphovar - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Email for things? (Score 1) 284

by morphovar on Thursday March 06, 2008 @12:53PM (#22664340) Attached to: Underground Freight Networks

"something like" email for things
the unmanned vehicles will follow a programmed route: i don't know of any existing transport system that does that

Submission + - Email in the 18th century 2

Submitted by morphovar on Sunday December 23, 2007 @01:11PM

morphovar writes: More than 200 years ago it was already possible to send messages throughout Europe and America at the speed of an aeroplane — wireless and without need for electricity. The optical telegraph network consisted of a chain of towers, each placed 5 to 20 kilometres apart from each other. Every tower had a telegrapher, looking through a telescope at the previous tower in the chain. If the semaphore on that tower was put into a certain position, the telegrapher copied that symbol on his own tower. A message could be transmitted from Amsterdam to Venice in one hour's time. A few years before, a messenger on a horse would have needed at least a month's time to do the same.

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