Requires Tier 7 — Electricity. Electricity becomes useful when it can carry information over distance. This tier covers the technologies that let a rebuilding society coordinate beyond line-of-sight.

Articles

  • Telegraph — Morse code, wire communication

  • Radio — electromagnetic waves, transmitters, and receivers

  • Telephony — microphones, speakers, signal transmission

  • Vacuum Tubes — amplification, the first active electronic component

  • Photography — cameras, silver halide chemistry, darkroom processing

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