Selections from 25 years – Süleyman Kasırga

In this section we publish texts from history and culture of electricity. Below summary is about the milestones of telegraphic communication.

Aischlos mentions about the news on Troy’s fall in Agamemnon’s drama passing a distance in 450 kms in a night. That kind of communication record would broken late 18 and early 19 th centuries. The word “telegraph” was derived from “tele:distant” and “grapgy:to write” in 1793. Until the middle of 19th century, the optic telegraph was in use. In 1838, Steinheil started experiments to use the railways as a telegraph, but failed. In 1837, American Congress held a competition on mechanic optical telegraph. Robinson installed first telegraph in Germany on the order of Hamburger Elektromagnetischen Telgraphen-Compaigne. That telegraph started to operate between Hamburg-Cuxhave on 15 Oct 1848.