<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:08 PM Noel Chiappa <<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> > From: Lori Emerson<br>
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> I can't imagine that veering into ad hominem attacks on the worth of her<br>
> degree is considered part of productive discussion<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A tidbit about Liberal Arts (my son is a History Major) ...</div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">There is no doubt that ARPANet, TCP/IP, Internet, WWW, etc, have been major contributions to the evolution of telecommunications, but one of the earliest uses of electricity to send long distance communications signals was the one wire telegraph, invented by Samuel Morse in 1837. Few years later the famous "<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">What hath God wrought?" message traveled from Washington to Baltimore. In 1847 he finally got his patent issued. There was also a turbulent political and economic context during those years.<br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Samuel in his later years grew a beard, certainly was no hippie, and interestingly he was not an engineer, not a scientist, he was ... a painter :-)</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cheers</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Jorge</font></span></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>