Wagonway and radio: what they have in common
- Step 1. Wagonway — evolved into — Railway track. Cast-iron and steel rails replaced wooden ones.
- Step 2. Railway track — inspired — Time zones. Introduced because of railway timetables.
- Step 3. Time zones — uses — Electrical telegraph. Synchronizing time by telegraph.
- Step 4. Electrical telegraph — uses — Morse code. Morse encoding.
- Step 5. Morse code — is used in — Radio. The first radio transmissions were in Morse code.