Pony Express


Communication Type
What was it?
When was it used?
What did it replace?
What replaced it?
24 hours...rain or shine!
Daring Pony Express Riders, and their noble steeds carried mail 1,966 miles between Missouri and California
April 1860 -
October 1861
It needed a way to get mail and other communications quickly as possible
telegraph made a faster and cheaper method to send information.
Morse Code
A method of transmitting text information as a series of no-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipments
1830s - 1840s
Also WW2 for pilots and air traffic controllers
Morse code is being replaced with a Synchronization Semaphore
A satellite-Based system where it is more effective that Morse Code.
Semaphore
a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type used to control access to a common resource by multiple processes in a concurrent system such as a multiprogramming operating system.
1962-1963
Netley Heath station of the shutter telegraph
A semaphore that was more effective
ASCII
is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
May 1963
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This is the Challenge! Copy the code representations for the word Pat.
Alphabet
ASCII Binary
ASCII Octal
Semaphore
Morse Code




P
01010000
120
L _I
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A
01000001
101
L /\
. _ _ .
T
01010100
124
L\I
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