MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net> wrote:
> - **Until the advent of the telegraph and radio, the spread of > knowledge was EXTREMELY SLOW. Communications across the Atlantic took > months, so two scientists debating their ideas on theories, or two > engineers discussing the design of a dam, consumed YEARS of time; now it > happens in SECONDS! > Discussions took time, but the flow of information was faster than you might thing. There was 6-week latency. When Franklin published new experiments on electricity, for example, news crossed the Atlantic in about 6 weeks and the experiments were replicated within months. It was no slower than replications today, because researchers do not work any faster. - Jed
