专业英语_数字通信历史解答.pptVIP

History of Digital Communication; In the electrical context, digital communication has its roots in telegraphy. In 1838, samuel F.B. Morse demonstrated a machine ( the telegraph, meaning distant writing) for sending messages rapidly over long distances, which for the time was remarkable in itself. ( Remember this was some 60 years prior to the demonstration of long-distance radio wave propagation.);;More interesting perhaps is that this first high-speed electrical telecommunication device utilized simple current-on/current-off signaling to build a code, or discrete signal set, for se