{"id":176733,"date":"2023-11-25T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-hydraulic-telegraph-of-aeneas-a-telecommunication-used-in-ancient-greece"},"modified":"2023-11-25T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:27:49","slug":"the-hydraulic-telegraph-of-aeneas-a-telecommunication-used-in-ancient-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-hydraulic-telegraph-of-aeneas-a-telecommunication-used-in-ancient-greece","title":{"rendered":"The Hydraulic Telegraph Of Aeneas: A Telecommunication Used In Ancient Greece"},"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\/Az28Hsne-nI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Telecommunication goes back a lot further than you might expect. While the word has become synonymous with television broadcasting and phone communication, it really describes any communication system over a distance, and could include <a href=\"https:\/\/voip.review\/2023\/04\/24\/evolution-telecoms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> smoke signals<\/a>. These simple signals were used to convey messages from \u201cthe enemy is approaching\u201d to the fact that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/284233543_Using_combined_biomolecular_methods_to_explore_whale_exploitation_and_social_aggregation_in_hunter-gatherer-fisher_society_in_Tierra_del_Fuego#pf2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> whale has beached itself<\/a> and can be butchered for meat.<\/p>\n<p>While some ancient cultures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseytraveller.com\/articles\/aboriginal-messages\/#:~:text=To%20convey%20distinct%20information%2C%20Aboriginal, black%2C%20white%2C%20or%20blue.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> varied smoke colors<\/a> to convey further information, there\u2019s only so much you can get across with a big fire. One particularly cool ancient version of telecommunication, which aimed to convey more precise meanings, was the hydraulic telegraph, used in Ancient Greece in around 350 BCE.<\/p>\n<p>The idea \u2013 thought to have been invented by Aeneas of Stymphalus, a writer on the military at the time \u2013 was simple, but neat. Each person you want to communicate with is given a jar of the same size, filled with the same amount of water. Inside the jar is a floating rod, on which was inscribed identical messages that are useful to pass along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommunication goes back a lot further than you might expect. While the word has become synonymous with television broadcasting and phone communication, it really describes any communication system over a distance, and could include smoke signals. These simple signals were used to convey messages from \u201cthe enemy is approaching\u201d to the fact that a whale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176733","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}