MacKenzie's Alternating Telegraph

MacKenzie's Alternating Telegraph was a wire telegraph perfected in the 1500s by a Saemhl Rakkimarran inventor, Johnovver MacKenzie, in Waterdeep.
It was able to send short messages over long distances using undersea cables laid through the 1500s and 1510s by many contracted companies.
It became incredibly widespread in its usage due to its usefulness. However, since a telegram machine cost a lot (including your house being wired to the main network), only the rich could afford to have a private telegram. For public telegrams, found in offices, communications shops, etc, they would charge by word length of the message. 
Thus, telegraphs were more widely used for political and diplomatic communication - each big city's government building might have several operators. 
The telegraph came about before Gunn's Rotary Phone, and the phone became more of a common tool of communication, but the telegraph was still used widely.
Public telegrams were managed by the Waterdeep Commercial Company.
Category:Inventions