"Photographers for the Matthew Brady studio," Wilder pointed out, "famously moved bodies to ‘capture’ the feel of battle in the Civil War. There are the notable ‘cannon balls on, cannon balls off’ images of the Valley of the Shadow of Death by Roger Fenton." The Valley of the Shado...
… What began in ink was spiraling into lead and steel. It took 16 years to develop from the introduction of the telegraph to the Civil War. Undoubtedly, the fight over slavery caused that conflict, but the newspapers fed it, amplified it, exaggerated it. Mid-19th-century Americans lived w...
Now you can tap out your e-mail address with a telegraph key. Inham radio, this is important. I am a licensed ham (amateur radio operator), call sign N4TMI, not on the air very much these days. Morse code is of course the oldest digital communication code, and it has acquired a n...