{"id":135364,"date":"2022-02-08T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/telecommunications-bit-rates-1798-2120"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:23:49","slug":"telecommunications-bit-rates-1798-2120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/telecommunications-bit-rates-1798-2120","title":{"rendered":"Telecommunications bit rates 1798\u20132120"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VqB-gGP6G9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>This graph shows the progress in telecommunications bit rates over the last two centuries, and a future extrapolation to the 22nd century.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A primitive form of telecommunications emerged in the late 18th century, when French inventor Claude Chappe demonstrated a practical semaphore system that delivered messages between Paris and Lille. Known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File: Signaling_by_Napoleonic_semaphore_line.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">optical telegraph<\/a>, it had a transmission rate of two to three symbols (196 different types) each minute, or about 0.4 b\/s.<\/p>\n<p>The electrical telegraph, popularised in the 1840s, used a coding system developed by American inventor Samuel Morse, which encoded text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes. It achieved a rate of approximately 100 b\/s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graph shows the progress in telecommunications bit rates over the last two centuries, and a future extrapolation to the 22nd century. A primitive form of telecommunications emerged in the late 18th century, when French inventor Claude Chappe demonstrated a practical semaphore system that delivered messages between Paris and Lille. Known as the optical telegraph, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}