SF Podcast 86: Barbed wire phone

14/12/2021 15 min
SF Podcast 86: Barbed wire phone

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Episode Synopsis

Life was lonely for rural folks on the frontier until they discovered they could hack a barbed wire fence and send a telephone signal to their neighbors. Rob MacDougall is an Associate Professor of American History at Western University in Ontario,Canada, and talks about how their ingenuity built a communication revolution
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