The engineering behind a trans-Atlantic telephone call is explained in painstaking detail in this short produced for the General Post Office, which presumably had jurisdiction over the infrastructure which made telecommunications possible.
I honestly got lost when they explained how fluctuations in the ionosphere caused signals to fall out of sync, and how the massive buried cable network would help work out these abnormalities. I was astonished at the amount of labour intensive activity required for this infrastructure and, wondered if, as with all changes in telecommunications, these innovations were probably outdated in relatively short order.
Interesting.
I honestly got lost when they explained how fluctuations in the ionosphere caused signals to fall out of sync, and how the massive buried cable network would help work out these abnormalities. I was astonished at the amount of labour intensive activity required for this infrastructure and, wondered if, as with all changes in telecommunications, these innovations were probably outdated in relatively short order.
Interesting.
