An important part of the Rothschild family fortune was apparently made in a similar way around Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, using an optical precursor of the tel

An important part of the Rothschild family fortune was apparently made in a similar way around Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, using an optical precursor of the telegraph networks. http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/email-in-the-18.html http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/email-in-the-18.html