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Fyra ord räckte. Den 24 maj 1844 sände konstnären som aldrig tänkte bli uppfinnare världens första telegram.#teknikhistoria #morse #samuelmorse
Morsning! Här skickas världens första telegram -
:stargif: 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆 :stargif:
Samuel Morse no empezó siendo inventor.
De hecho, su vida giraba alrededor del arte.
Era pintor, bastante reconocido en su época, y se movía entre retratos de personajes importantes y encargos que lo llevaban de un lado a otro.En 1825 estaba trabajando en Washington cuando recibió una carta con una noticia urgente: su esposa, Lucretia, estaba muy enferma.
Él no alcanzó a reaccionar a tiempo.
Cuando consiguió volver a New Haven, ella ya había muerto y estaba enterrada.
No hubo despedida, ni última palabra, ni ese instante que uno siempre cree que va a tener.Ese golpe le quedó clavado.
En una época en la que una noticia tardaba días o semanas en viajar, Morse entendió algo muy concreto: la distancia no solo separa lugares, también puede romper vidas sin que nadie lo vea venir.
Antes de ese episodio ya era un artista sólido.
Había fundado la Academia Nacional de Dibujo y retratado a figuras como John Adams, James Monroe o incluso el marqués de La Fayette.
Su obra más ambiciosa fue La Galería del Louvre, donde reprodujo decenas de pinturas europeas con una paciencia casi obsesiva.Pero su rumbo empezó a cambiar.
Durante un viaje de regreso desde Europa en el barco Sully en 1832, escuchó hablar de los experimentos con electromagnetismo.
Esa idea, combinada con lo que había vivido, terminó encajando en su cabeza de una forma muy personal: si la información pudiera viajar rápido, quizá otras personas no perderían lo mismo que él perdió.A partir de ahí empezó a trabajar en lo que sería el telégrafo eléctrico.
No lo hizo solo.
Alfred Vail fue clave en el desarrollo del sistema y en la simplificación del código.
Morse había ideado un sistema inicial basado en números que requerían un diccionario para traducirlos.
Vail lo transformó en lo que hoy conocemos: puntos y rayas, un lenguaje directo y mucho más práctico.Cada señal representaba una letra, y las letras más comunes tenían los códigos más cortos.
Era simple, pero revolucionario.El 24 de mayo de 1844 se envió el primer mensaje oficial entre Washington y Baltimore: “What hath God wrought”, una frase bíblica que marcó el inicio de una nueva era.
A partir de ahí, la comunicación dejó de depender únicamente de cartas lentas o viajes interminables.
El mundo empezó a hablar más rápido.En lo personal, la vida de Morse también cambió.
Se casó dos veces.
Su primer matrimonio fue con Lucretia Pickering Walker en 1818, con quien tuvo tres hijos: Susan, Charles y James.
Ella murió en 1825 por complicaciones de salud tras su último parto.
Más tarde, ya con estabilidad económica gracias al telégrafo, se casó en 1848 con Sarah Elizabeth Griswold y tuvo cuatro hijos más: Samuel, Cornelia, William y Edward.Nació el 27 de abril de 1791 en Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Creció en un entorno religioso y culto, hijo de Jedidiah Morse, geógrafo y pastor, y Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese.
Estudió en Phillips Academy, pasó por Yale a los 14 años, donde se graduó en 1810, y más tarde se formó en la Royal Academy de Londres, donde consolidó su carrera artística.Murió el 2 de abril de 1872 en Nueva York a los 80 años, a causa de una neumonía.
Fue enterrado en el cementerio de Green-Wood, en Brooklyn, ya como una figura reconocida en todo el mundo.Su historia deja una idea bastante clara: a veces los grandes cambios no nacen de la ambición, sino de una ausencia que no se puede arreglar.
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#samuelmorse #historia #telégrafo #codigomorse #inventores #historiadelaciencia #comunicación #sigloxix #biografía #curiosidadeshistóricas #arteyciencia #neoyork #historiareal
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“It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said “Mate!” in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.”*…
… but perhaps the offense is muted if the call is remote.
Electronic gaming is huge– and growing, As Rolling Stone reports…
The gaming industry, fueled by platforms like Twitch and YouTube, has surged into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse, projected to exceed $207 billion in 2026. These platforms do more than showcase gameplay—they cultivate vibrant, interactive communities where fans engage in real time, from live chats to virtual watch parties. Games like League of Legends, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike and Fortnite have become a cultural phenomenon, drawing in over 2.6 billion gamers globally, a number that continues to climb each year. Mobile gaming, accounting for over 60% of global gaming revenue, plays a significant role in this growth, making gaming accessible to a broader audience than ever before…
But as Danny Robb explains, using tecnology to play games remotely has a long history…
In 1897, the United States House of Representatives held a series of chess matches to find their most skilled players. The five winners were pitted against counterparts in the British House of Commons. But while the Americans sat down to play in Washington, D.C., their opponents sat in London. The players received moves by telegraph, and sent responses back over wires that crossed the Atlantic.
By this point, “cable chess” had been slowly evolving for decades. Historian Simone Müller-Pohl argues that this form of long-distance chess play offers insight into the cultural and political currents of the industrial era.
By the mid-nineteenth century, she explains, there was a growing sports culture in Europe and the US. Industrial technologies enabled more people to attend games and follow along from a distance. A growing middle class fostered this sporting culture, which came to include chess.
“Weekly,” Müller-Pohl explains, “the liberal and intellectual elites of the time assembled around chess boards in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Moscow, Rome, and London.” Interest in the game spread, and chess clubs emerged. As clubs arranged tournaments and standardized chess rules, Müller-Pohl argues that chess “was gradually turned into a sport.”
Correspondence chess grew along with the game, in part thanks to cheap and efficient postal services. When the telegraph emerged on the scene, the application to chess was almost immediate.
“It was telegraphy’s fathers who pulled the strings behind the first schemes for cable chess,” Müller-Pohl explains. In 1844, inventor Samuel Morse arranged chess matches on a new telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. “All of the 686 moves necessary for the seven games played were transmitted without mistake or interruption,” Müller-Pohl writes.
Not long after, in 1845, inventor Charles Wheatstone attended a demonstration in London. Chess legend Howard Staunton played against his rival George Walker over the South Western Railway line between Portsmouth and London. Müller-Pohl describes how witnesses found the match “rather tedious,” but it received a lot of press. This was partly the point—the matches demonstrated and advertised the capabilities and accuracy of the invention.
The Staunton match had another interesting aspect. Müller-Pohl points out that “the lines were still used for ordinary traffic during the games, allowing a group of chess players from Southampton to have every move telegraphed to them.” A bit like modern e-sports, spectators could observe the virtual match…
The early history of e-gaming– when telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents, linking players and spectators in a new kind of long-distance competition: “The First E-Sports? Chess by Telegraph,” from @inverting-vision.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.
* A. A. Milne
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As we note that what’s old is new again, we might recall that it was on this date in 1958 that Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” was released. It peaked at number two on the Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its pre-Billboard Hot 100 chart. Considered “the first rock & roll hit about rock & roll stardom”, it has been covered by many, many other artists and has received many, many honors and accolades, among them being ranked 33rd and 7th, respectively, on Rolling Stone’s 2021 and 2004 lists of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was also included as one of the 27 songs on the Voyager Golden Record (a collection of music, images, and sounds designed to serve as an introduction and record of global humanity’s achievements, innovations and culture, to alien/otherworldly inhabitants).
Apropos the piece above, it was released by Chess Records.
https://youtu.be/6ROwVrF0Ceg?si=mn0aUbfgzyWtINVy
#chess #ChuckBerry #culture #eGaming #electronicGaming #gaming #history #mobileGaming #music #rock #rockAndRoll #SamuelMorse #Technology #telegraph #VoyagerGoldenRecord -
“It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said “Mate!” in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.”*…
… but perhaps the offense is muted if the call is remote.
Electronic gaming is huge– and growing, As Rolling Stone reports…
The gaming industry, fueled by platforms like Twitch and YouTube, has surged into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse, projected to exceed $207 billion in 2026. These platforms do more than showcase gameplay—they cultivate vibrant, interactive communities where fans engage in real time, from live chats to virtual watch parties. Games like League of Legends, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike and Fortnite have become a cultural phenomenon, drawing in over 2.6 billion gamers globally, a number that continues to climb each year. Mobile gaming, accounting for over 60% of global gaming revenue, plays a significant role in this growth, making gaming accessible to a broader audience than ever before…
But as Danny Robb explains, using tecnology to play games remotely has a long history…
In 1897, the United States House of Representatives held a series of chess matches to find their most skilled players. The five winners were pitted against counterparts in the British House of Commons. But while the Americans sat down to play in Washington, D.C., their opponents sat in London. The players received moves by telegraph, and sent responses back over wires that crossed the Atlantic.
By this point, “cable chess” had been slowly evolving for decades. Historian Simone Müller-Pohl argues that this form of long-distance chess play offers insight into the cultural and political currents of the industrial era.
By the mid-nineteenth century, she explains, there was a growing sports culture in Europe and the US. Industrial technologies enabled more people to attend games and follow along from a distance. A growing middle class fostered this sporting culture, which came to include chess.
“Weekly,” Müller-Pohl explains, “the liberal and intellectual elites of the time assembled around chess boards in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Moscow, Rome, and London.” Interest in the game spread, and chess clubs emerged. As clubs arranged tournaments and standardized chess rules, Müller-Pohl argues that chess “was gradually turned into a sport.”
Correspondence chess grew along with the game, in part thanks to cheap and efficient postal services. When the telegraph emerged on the scene, the application to chess was almost immediate.
“It was telegraphy’s fathers who pulled the strings behind the first schemes for cable chess,” Müller-Pohl explains. In 1844, inventor Samuel Morse arranged chess matches on a new telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. “All of the 686 moves necessary for the seven games played were transmitted without mistake or interruption,” Müller-Pohl writes.
Not long after, in 1845, inventor Charles Wheatstone attended a demonstration in London. Chess legend Howard Staunton played against his rival George Walker over the South Western Railway line between Portsmouth and London. Müller-Pohl describes how witnesses found the match “rather tedious,” but it received a lot of press. This was partly the point—the matches demonstrated and advertised the capabilities and accuracy of the invention.
The Staunton match had another interesting aspect. Müller-Pohl points out that “the lines were still used for ordinary traffic during the games, allowing a group of chess players from Southampton to have every move telegraphed to them.” A bit like modern e-sports, spectators could observe the virtual match…
The early history of e-gaming– when telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents, linking players and spectators in a new kind of long-distance competition: “The First E-Sports? Chess by Telegraph,” from @inverting-vision.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.
* A. A. Milne
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As we note that what’s old is new again, we might recall that it was on this date in 1958 that Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” was released. It peaked at number two on the Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its pre-Billboard Hot 100 chart. Considered “the first rock & roll hit about rock & roll stardom”, it has been covered by many, many other artists and has received many, many honors and accolades, among them being ranked 33rd and 7th, respectively, on Rolling Stone’s 2021 and 2004 lists of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was also included as one of the 27 songs on the Voyager Golden Record (a collection of music, images, and sounds designed to serve as an introduction and record of global humanity’s achievements, innovations and culture, to alien/otherworldly inhabitants).
Apropos the piece above, it was released by Chess Records.
https://youtu.be/6ROwVrF0Ceg?si=mn0aUbfgzyWtINVy
#chess #ChuckBerry #culture #eGaming #electronicGaming #gaming #history #mobileGaming #music #rock #rockAndRoll #SamuelMorse #Technology #telegraph #VoyagerGoldenRecord -
🗓️ Efeméride: 24 de mayo de 1844.
🌍 Samuel Morse envía el primer mensaje telegráfico entre Washington y Baltimore: “¿Qué ha hecho Dios?”. La comunicación humana acababa de dar un salto que acortaría el mundo sin mover un solo cuerpo.
#SamuelMorse #Telégrafo #Historia #Tecnología #Comunicación #Efeméride
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No new sources, but a good account of Samuel Morse's momentous decision between art and technology.
Read about Samuel F. B. Morse's transition from an aspiring artist to the inventor of the telegraph. The article explores Morse's struggle with his art career and his ultimate shift to groundbreaking technology.
#ArtHistory #Technology #SamuelMorse https://journalpanorama.org/article/ex-artists-in-america/jilted-samuel-f-b-morse/ -
No new sources, but a good account of Samuel Morse's momentous decision between art and technology.
Read about Samuel F. B. Morse's transition from an aspiring artist to the inventor of the telegraph. The article explores Morse's struggle with his art career and his ultimate shift to groundbreaking technology.
#ArtHistory #Technology #SamuelMorse https://journalpanorama.org/article/ex-artists-in-america/jilted-samuel-f-b-morse/ -
#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 27: #Morse code heard on #MorseCodeDay
Jean #Cocteau's Orphée [Orpheus] (1950) – here the mythological poet and musician is personified by Jean Marais – accompanies a fallen young poet transported to the Underworld by car. The car radio plays fragments of poetry, interrupted by #MorseCode. When back in this world, #Orphée obsesses over the lines of radical poetry he heard and returns to the car's radio to retrieve them.
Morse code and other industrial sounds serve as a soundscape for Cocteau's characters. They swerve in and out of it, sometimes fully aware of them (Orpheus himself is attuned to the #poetry to be found in emergency radio broadcasts), sometimes passing through like a mirage.
#film #cinema #JeanCocteau #MusiqueConcrète #GeorgesAuric #SoundDesign #soundscapes #JeanMarais #mythology #SamuelMorse #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @bales1181 @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/
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#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 27: #Morse code heard on #MorseCodeDay
Jean #Cocteau's Orphée [Orpheus] (1950) – here the mythological poet and musician is personified by Jean Marais – accompanies a fallen young poet transported to the Underworld by car. The car radio plays fragments of poetry, interrupted by #MorseCode. When back in this world, #Orphée obsesses over the lines of radical poetry he heard and returns to the car's radio to retrieve them.
Morse code and other industrial sounds serve as a soundscape for Cocteau's characters. They swerve in and out of it, sometimes fully aware of them (Orpheus himself is attuned to the #poetry to be found in emergency radio broadcasts), sometimes passing through like a mirage.
#film #cinema #JeanCocteau #MusiqueConcrète #GeorgesAuric #SoundDesign #soundscapes #JeanMarais #mythology #SamuelMorse #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @bales1181 @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/
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#TodayInHistory Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse demonstrated the telegraph system using dots and dashes in 1838, this code would be the predecessor for the Morse Code. Vail was also responsible for many innovations like the sending key, relay registers in telegraphy.
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#TodayInHistory Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse demonstrated the telegraph system using dots and dashes in 1838, this code would be the predecessor for the Morse Code. Vail was also responsible for many innovations like the sending key, relay registers in telegraphy.
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Vielleicht sollte man den #Morse-#Code lieber umbenennen wenn der moderne #Morsecode von Friedrich Clemens Gerke und der historische Ur-Code von Alfred Vail entwickelt wurde. während #SamuelMorse selbst eher antisemitischer Verschwörungsideologe (und erfolgloser, dennoch sein Talent überschätzender Maler) war.
Offenbar kein so angenehmer Zeitgenosse, der schon zu Lebzeiten als Verrückter Fanatiker galt.
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Der Weg zur ersten Telegrafenlinie war lang: Der Erfinder musste zuvor Überzeugungsarbeit leisten. Später war ein Morsecode das letzte Signal einer Tragödie.
Zahlen, bitte! 61 Kilometer, die nicht Gott erschuf: Der erste Morsetelegraf -
American Xenophobia is Not New, 1960–2000 Was an Aberration
A HN reader asks “What happened to the US in the past fourty years?”... The trend unfortunately dates back through history. The 1960s through 1990s were a high period of openness to foreigners and globalisation, across the political spectrum, though not universally embraced. ... But the xenophobic pattern is clear in the history of American Immigration law. Forced Mexican Repatriation (1932), The National Origins Formula (1924), California Alien Land Law of 1913, Anarchist Exclusion Act (1901), Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). The Page Act (1875) barring “immigrants considered ‘undesirable,’'....
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4d4f2500c7a40138a805002590d8e506 (dead link)
Edit: Linkrot mediation.
#UnitedStates #xenophobia #bigotry #immigration #RichardHofstadter #SamuelMorse #HenryFord #ThomasWatson #MarkTwain #RightWing #RalphEllsworth #SarahHarris #FundForTheRepublic