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]]>Thanks for posting this…very interesting, indeed. I actually think some folks in the Civil War era were very forward thinking when it came to electronic communications. In late 1861, the *Scientific American* asked its readers to give attention to inventing a “pocket telegraph” that could be “operated without connecting wires; capable of being carried in the pocket like a watch, and to be in sympathetic relation to another similar instrument possessed by a distant friend or correspondent.”
Sound like a cell phone to you?!
Mind you, they weren’t saying “someday people will be using something like this.” It was 1861 and they saw a need for it right then. Imagine what it would have done for battlefield communications!
All My Best,
Jim Schmidt
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