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TRANSMISSION AND COMMUNICATION COMPENTECE:
Nowadays, we communicate with Whatsapp, Facebook, smartphones. Moreover, we
can use innovative methods as email, cars, planes, trains ecc. Thinking in ESSENTIAL
way (if we don’t have any cellphones, we can’t read maps etc.) how would we
communicate something important to other people, we would have to use the
traditional ways to communicate. Forexample:
Morse code
The so-called Alphabet Morse, is a system to transmit letters, numbers using a signal
code with intermittence. Born in 1835 by Samuel Morse, it was an ante litteram form
of digital communication that use only . and _ composing words and paragraphs and
phrases.
Smoke signal
Flag signal
Using a couples of Flag, 50*50 cm, half white and half red and diagonal divided, we
can easily communicate from two places far away each other, but with possibility to
see both. Important the use of Binocular to focus the signals.
And others, such as telegraph, radio, courier pigeon or whiste.