History of Communications(Devices)-Top Five Messaging Tools in Ancient Societies
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Human beings have a long history of communication

As far back as ancient times, people exchanged information through simple language, frescoes, etc. For thousands of years, human beings have been using language, pictures, drums, fireworks, bamboo, letters, etc. to transmit information, until the modern society, all kinds of communication equipment developed by electromagnetic waves and microwaves dominate the mainstream communication, many ancient means of information exchange began to slowly fade away, but the ancient information transmission has not disappeared, with human being’s summary of some visual and auditory information transmission, many ancient means of information transmission still play an important role in some industries, such as traffic gestures, Sea semaphore, so that human information transmission history is a human development history.

Let’s walk into history together and see how our ancestors used their wisdom to deliver information back in the day.

1.VERBAL INFORMATION TRANSFERRING

The first and most primitive is “human” (verbal information transferring). Ever since the human ancestors invented language, they began to use language to communicate in various scenes, rounding up prey, daily communication, conveying important information, etc.

At the beginning, the communication within the tribes was followed by tribal wars and other reasons, the role and scope of communication also became more and more extensive.

The most famous one was the Marathon War in 490 BC, when the powerful Persian Empire invaded ancient Greece, there was a huge difference in strength between the two sides, but the ancient Greek people did not fear the imperial power and rose up to resist. Eventually the Persian Allies were repulsed in the Marathon Plain by the Athenian Federation, and to share the joy of victory in the war on the front, Philippides ran a long 42KM in the same breath, arriving in the city with only a shout: “We have won! Athens is saved!” Then he fell to the ground and died from exhaustion.

The sport of marathon running was established by descendants to commemorate the Battle of the Marathon and the feat of Philippides.

But the transmission of information by two feet and verbally has 2 major insurmountable flaws, the first being low accuracy and the second being slow, and later humans have made a number of improvements to the transmission of information

2. SMOKER SIGNAL

With the constant wars between social tribes and city-states, large tribes merged with small tribes, and later formed city-states, the geographical area far exceeded the limit of human legs, and soon human beings also updated the methods of information transaction, such as SMOKER SIGAL, which is the most effective way to quickly transmit any emergency information.

Frequent wars happened in the border areas stretching for hundreds or even thousands of miles, in order to deliver the frontline war updates in the fastest way to the central city for help, people built beacons at the highest location. As soon as a beacon is lit, the beacons behind it will be lit like dominoes one by one, all people who can see the fireworks along the way know that there is an emergency, which can always get better preparations and resources for the war.

Although this move greatly reduced the time of major information transmission, meanwhile the drawback was obvious as well, that the detail content cannot be transmitted but only simple information transfer in the most critical moment.

3. PONY EXPRESS

As time went on, in order to strengthen the rule and management of remote cities, the dominator increased more strict requirements for long-distance information transmission: not only for the rapid transmission of emergency message, but also for the constant updated knowledge of the political and livelihood details of these areas, as a result, a new way of information transform was developed, that is, the PONY EXPRESS.

People found that horses are quite good at long-distance running, and able to transport materials as well. So, people used horses to carry out long-distance information transmission, the courier station is established by each small town for the horse as a stationary spot for the delivery of information transit, for example, information transferred from A to D, through B and C, then the messenger can change horses in B and C stage station, meanwhile replenished material and took a rest, so that the horses and the messengers can pass information to the leadership’s hands in a timely matter. As above, these are all methods of transmitting information over long distances.

4. SEMAPHORE FLAG

With the development of wars, the original single infantry has developed into a multifaceted army of infantry, cavalry, archers, stoners, and warships, which would increase the battlefield. The value of audio information decreases over distance or even impossible to be transmitted on the noisy battlefield, even if it reaches the warriors, there could be misunderstanding due to inaudible hearing, and could confuse people, and mislead the decision-making process.

Therefore, SEMAPHORE FLAG came along. The formation of SEMAPHORE FLAG was due to the fact that the vision was not affected by these sound factors, and it could clearly express the exact meaning, which was concise and comprehensive!

Traffic police gestures and Sea semaphore both evolved from this

5. HOMING PIGEON

there is also another special way of information transmission in the history of human communication. Homing Pigeon. Human domesticated pigeon to achieve the rapid transmission of information. It is known as early as 3,000 years ago the Ancient Egypt began to use pigeons to transmit information. In ancient Greece, pigeons were used to deliver the names of Olympic winners to the surrounding city-states. The Sultan of Baghdad established the first postal system in the world depend on pigeons.

Pigeons are still in use in modern times, especially in the World War I and the World War II, pigeons have also made great contributions for the military information delivery. At the beginning of the World War II, pigeons are still a supplementary means of wireless communication. Whether in the army, navy or air force, carrier pigeons are always on their heels, and some of them have more fancy names than in World War I: Lady Astor, Pepper head or Holy Ghost, while some have only numerical numbers.

In World War I, pigeons were usually packed in baskets and tied to the scout’s chest or under his arm to the most dangerous areas. In 1943 the carrier pigeon “Joe” saved the village of Calvirisota in southern Italy. The enemy forces were planning to bomb the village on 18TH October. This carrier pigeon named “Joe”, flew through the enemy’s artillery fire over more than four hundred kilometers day and night, transmitted the emergency message for the Allied forces, and successfully saved the lives of more than thirty thousand Allied officers and soldiers. throughout this long-distance delivery, “Joe” was wounded in one leg by enemy artillery fire and half of his wing feathers fell off, but he still carried the information to its destination with perseverance. After the war, the Allies deliberately built a monument to this brave pigeon in France in its honor, and until now the annual pigeon race is held all over the world.

History of Communications(Devices)-Top Five Messaging Tools in Ancient Societies

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