vanman2004 said:*
Lots of things don't have wires. The peach I'm eating has no wires. My
dog, too, is wireless. *
Chortle😄
As a kid, I wondered why my grandad's "wireless" was called a "wireless"
when I could clearly see that it was plugged in to the mains with a plug
on a length of wire!
For those younger readers who don't understand the word:
The first electronic communications were "telegraph" ("tele" meaning
far, or long distance (as in telescope, teleological, television) and
"graph" as in writing (graphology, etc.)). The signal went alng wires
which often ran alongside railway tracks. (US = "railroad"😉
When radio was introduced, it was called "wireless telegraph" to
differentiate it from ordinary telegraph that went along telegraph
wires.
Telegraph was originally by morse code - a system of beeps or taps to
represent letters of the alphabet. As it became more common to transmit
sound (telephone) the term "wireless telegraph" evolved into "wireless"
- which is, as Vanman2004 pointed out, a singularly undescriptive
term.
Language is like that. How far would you see through a pair of
telescopic forks?
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