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It all started in the "the most useless uses for useful powers" thread. There I was, minding my own business, when fate struck: If you don't have electricity, that's actually a very good idea. Aren't those called spanreeds, and aren't they used for communication that's actually much more subtle than the telegraph ever was? Don't you be dissing the telegraph! Thread time! I understand that spanreeds exist, they're just slow, unreliable, finicky, expensive, and (most likely) have a limited range compared to telegraph keys. "Subtle" is an odd word here. Do you mean faster? More versatile? Telegraphs are better at everything! *froths* Message speed: Versality: Mechanical Advantages: Mobility and Orientation: Range: Crazy-land: Masculine Employment: Impacts: TL;DR: Using conjoiner fabrials to set up paired keys for telegraphy (preferably two sets of keys for each pair, for continuous and non-waiting input/output) is really awesome, and a much better idea (also more scale-able and more versatile) than writing out words with spanreeds. EDIT: As it turns out, writing out full messages with a pen is also technically telegraphy, by definition. Needless to say, I mean the more traditional, Morse-code style telegraphy with essentially a simple on/off switch. You could engineer vastly more complex systems (essentially replacing electrical signals with mechanical ones), but I focus on the simple ones.
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