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![]() Reader comments and feedback for the e and b jacobs photo.
This image is part of the Historic Photos photo gallery ![]() founded 1844 shown here in 1868 in the 100 block of Texas. |
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I may have already commented on this picture.. but just look at that pic. it's freakin' Deadwood right here in Shreveport. I love it. So in 1868, would shreveport of had Telegraph yet ?
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apparently Shreveport was connected to Houston, TX via telegraph in 1853
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LOL, Interesting. How fast is morse code? I'm guessing the "baud rate" would be somewhere between 10 and 30 bps (encoded/compressed) That was the first "Internet".
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Titanic sank in 1912.
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