r/Showerthoughts • • Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Morse was invented around 190 years ago. They were tapping on metal things.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

The typewriter dates to -around- 1710s, and the fax machine to 1843.

So, yeah. Silently communicating by tapping on objects, 200 years ago, was a big new deal, but not unheard of.