Art of the Problem | Ancient Information Theory (Semaphores & signal fires) @ArtOfTheProblem | Uploaded 11 years ago | Updated 11 hours ago
History of the telegraph from the signal fire to 18th Century semaphore lines. We visit ideas of Polybius, Aeneas Tactius, Sushruta, Francis Bacon, Robert Hooke and others.

References:
Communications: An International History of the Formative Years (Burns)
Understanding Media (McLuhan)
The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Shannon)
The Histories (Polybius)
translation link: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/home.html)