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History of Telecommunications
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Bill's 200-Year Condensed History of Telecommunications
William von Alven,
Manager, FCC Part 68 Operations
May 1998
First, a few notes on the 14th Part 68 Training Seminar held in Albuquerque
on February 18 - 20 , 1998. These seminars, always well-attended, are very important for
assuring "experience retention". Human beings are very ephemeral. When they
retire, change jobs, or otherwise disappear, their experience goes with them. These
seminars have been and will be an excellent means for assuring continuity of information
necessary to keep our multi-supplier telecommunications system working.
The first seminar was sponsored by EIA in 1979 and was held at the
Mayflower Hotel in Washington. The FCC's Part 68 Measurement Guide, developed by FCC
engineer, Ed Lang, was the centerpiece of the meeting. About 450 people attended and the
price was $35.00, including luncheon. Since then George Washington University sponsored
five seminars at various locations over the country, and EIA/TIA sponsored the remainder
at two-year intervals.
After the Phoenix seminar in 1990, a number of attendees asked me for a
copy of my presentation in which I covered a list of events that led to the development of
Part 68. I hadn't written my talk; however, it was published in the February 1990 issue of
the Billboard. I am reprinting it here with some updates:
PRELUDE
1200 BC - Homer talks about signal fires in the Illiad.
700 BC to 300 AD - Carrier pigeons used in Olympic games
1588 AD - Arrival of the Spanish Armada announced by signal fires
Voice telegraphs used hundreds of years BC through the Middle Ages and in the Canary
Islands today.
~1800 AD - A line of canon from Buffalo to NYC used to announce Gov. DeWitt Clinton's
inaugural trip through the Erie Canal. It to"
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