WIG WAG
Origins
Before the start of the Civil War, a man by the name of Albert Myer created a form of communication to direct messages from far distances to his troops. Albery Myer was a telegrapher before he became an army doctor. He revolutionized how people could communicate during battle without the use of modern technology.
WIG WAG
There are two simple wigwag flags, one white with a red center and one red with a white center A red one with a white middle. The white one was used at night and the red was used during the day. There are three simple movements in each letter: down to the left, down to the right, or down to the signalman in front. Since the Morse Code was the basis for this code, five waves could represent one letter. Towards the untrained eye, it seemed that the signalman was only wagging. In no special order is the flag around, earning it the name wigwag. By the end of WWI, the Marines would use wigwag to be the basis of their communication.
ELECTRONICS
Background
The world was exposed to an array of electricity-utilizing technology at the beginning of the 20th century. Scientists have been investigating electricity and how to harness it well, but there were scientists like Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and among many more who transformed electricity into a useable form. By the time WWI began, electricity was in operation in large cities around the world. The electrical telegraph, the phone, the lightbulb, and portable radio changed how warfare commenced.
ELECTRONICS
Radio was only in its infancy at the start of World War I. Army technology was primitive and had a very short range and atmospheric interference was always negotiated. At the time, called cutting-edge equipment, a 1913 aircraft with a radio had a maximum range of 2,000 yards. Vacuum tubes, which were heavy and rigid, were often used for military radio stations. Now on to the telegraph. Fifteen thousand miles of telegraph wire were laid down solely for strategic uses during the war. Mobile telegraph wagons registered messages from just behind the frontline and collected them.
