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Would the ternary code have been more difficult to learn, or to key by hand? How would it have been transmitted over the radio?
by tobinfricke 7y ago
Would the ternary code have been more difficult to learn, or to key by hand? How would it have been transmitted over the radio?
- ncmncm 7y agoRadio was far in the future, but radio is quite versatile, so it would not have been a problem. Ternary would have been easy enough to learn, telegraphers being even more versatile than radios, but the actual need for human telegraphers is another artifact of Morse's design. Automated and faster communication would have developed naturally, without, which might have delayed development of fixed-length codes like baudot and ascii. Edison might then not have got his start (as a telegrapher), and maybe Tesla would not have encountered such opposition to his alternating-current electrical system, and not have ended up turning it over to what became General Electric, for free.