Telegraphy

In tribute to the blogs logo inspiration, I'd like to kick-off this months theme with a shout out to the Telegram. The very first Telegraph was not invented by Samuel Morse, as we oft think, but rather by Carl Gauss and Wilhelm Weber in 1830, and was perfected by Mr. Morse in 1836, at which point it became a veritable sensation, spreading across the US like wildfire, and replacing the Pony Express. Sadly our virtual world of email, texting, and tweeting have sent the gloriously simple and archaic telegram to the "dustbin of history," but the memory lives on. Though the spirit of the telegram is prevalent in our ever abbreviated forms of virtual communication. Nothing can really replace the hands on paper experience of the telegram, and the chance it gave everyday citizens with an urgent message to deliver to become "tabloid headline writers" for a moment. Here are a few of my favorites STOP