In the seventies, as the family moved from Spain to Central America and on to South America and then Florida, Victoria picked up four new languages — French, English, German, and Italian — along with the silent telegraphy of the privileged.
The performers are mostly Korean, and their mesmerizing synchronized dance moves, accompanied by a complex telegraphy of winks and hand gestures, have an Asian flavor, but the music sounds Western: hip-hop verses, Euro-pop choruses, rapping, and dubstep breaks.
The transformation of telegraphy to an auditory art left Edison more and more disadvantaged during his six-year career as an itinerant telegrapher in the Midwest, the South, Canada, and New England.
Amid the typewriters, we hear the clicking of telegraphy, then the crackle of radio.
In order to dramatize the potential of this new medium of communication, he began, as early as 1902, to give public demonstrations of wireless telegraphy for businessmen, the press, and the military.
Considerably predating the discovery of radio waves, many peoples had developed means of telegraphy within the broadest sense of the word.
In 1832 Samuel F.B. Morse, a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York (later New York University), became interested in the possibility of electric telegraphy and made sketches of ideas for such a system.
In the early nineteen-hundreds, he invented a system of "multiplex telephony and telegraphy by means of electric waves guided by wires" — transmitting multiple radio signals along the outside of electrical, telegraph, and telephone lines.
The communications needs of telegraphy and radio and the maturing of mechanical and electromechanical technology came together in the 1920s to bring about a major advance in cryptodevices: the development of rotor cipher machines.
Originally called "Genius of Telegraphy," the name was changed to "Genius of Electricity" after AT&T was forced to sell Western Union, and then later to "Spirit of Communication".
Closed in 1997, the station's receiving headquarters is like a living time capsule, stuffed with communications relics, including Teletype machines, manual typewriters and rotary phones — and, of course, all manner of telegraphy keys, ranging from the versions like those used in Samuel Morse's time to shiny new models favored by some modern-day ham operators.
