Wanna talk?!  Here’s a stunning, historical image that most people would flip on by in a collection of pictures. They would just say, ‘hum, a bunch of unknown guys hanging around a telegraph office.  What’s to see here?’ Actually, the picture is stunning. What you are seeing is history in the making.  The two towers with the blades are called wigwags. In the days before the telegraph, messages were line-of-sight and were passed from one wigwag operator to the next. It was the semaphore of its day. From operator to operator, letter by letter, the message was sent ‘down the line’ and was incredibly expensive. Enter the telegraph – which you can see in the upper left-hand corner. Suddenly messages were sent faster and cheaper.  Wigwags did not go the way of the dinosaur but they were confined to ships at sea – and boy scouts – until the era of the radio. Yes, this is a photograph of a ‘bunch of guys hanging around a telegraph office,’ but it is as significant as a Steve Jobs announcement of a new and revolutionary Apple product. https://www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi