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Matters Of Time

Matters Of Time

Written by: Jerry Trowbridge
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Ultimately this is a podcast about time, but we tell the story through the history of instantaneous media, from the telegraph to the internet. In our first episode we discuss America before we understood electromagnetic radiation, The Age of the Iron Horse, The first broadcaster offering regularly scheduled programs, and we let you in on the fact that we're approaching these subjects like quantum physicists, not historians.

We hope you'll join us for the ride.

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  • Episode 1 - Introduction

    Episode 1 - Introduction
    Sep 19 2024

    We start from 1000 miles above New York City before we had any knowledge of electronics and only limited knowledge on the nature of light and sound and everything was slow. (We'll hang out there again...)

    Then The Age of the Iron Horse arrived, and everything began getting faster, which accelerated even more at the turn of the century when we harnessed electromagnetic radiation, starting at the lower end with the longest of the long waves first with bursts of noise which carried Morse Code.

    We gained more finesse in modulating radio waves; enough so that we could broadcast the human voice, and that made radio a medium for the masses.

    As the last segment, we talk about the nature of time, the nature of this podcast, and the nature of instantaneous communications, We've now seen a whole life cycle in our first instantiation of communications immediacy, as we say goodbye to commercial telegraphy at its last known address: India, and say hello to you.

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