Communication plays a virtuell part in live of humanity. Three circumstances must take place: 1) people must be in near contact 2) people must be able to produce sound and 3) people must use the same codeing for their messaging. In contrast to animals, people are able to produce sofisticated sounds and could even sing. Most animals only are able to more or less produce simple sounds. In evaluation of humanity different languages come into existence, because people live in distant places and don't know each other. It is quite sure, there is no universal language throughout the world in old times, but many different ones.

Earth was not as much populated as it is now. But people move around and travel to different places and find new homes. For contact to relatives left behind, the only way to communicate was by means of writing letters or tell messangers what you want to say (Marathon Athen - Pelopones), messages travel quite a time to reach it's destination.

When and where first attempts were made to improve communication took place, could not be exactly denoted. According to literatur and records a relaiable and durable optical system was established in France in 1794. This country was ruled centralized out of Paris and the provinces where connected by a optical telegraph / semaphore system of French inventor Claude Chappe et al.

This optical system needs many manpower to run. At distances of about 11 km apart a relay station must be maintend to foreward the message to the next station. It calculates one signal to travel a distance of 135 km within 1 minutes time. First line was errected in 1793/94 from Paris to Lille, 235 km apart. Other places followed and the system worked perfect. In literature Emile Zola mentioned the telegraph, when "Comte de Monte Christo" brided a telegrapher to sent a false message.

This optical system was errected in the many European Areas as well, but not in Germany. Germany then was splitted in many tiny areas and the ruling person don't want to improve long distance communication over their country.

At end, a optical telegraph/semaphore line was build between Berlin and Koblenz. A second line was established between Hamburg and Cuxhaven , later Bremerhaven and Bremen by investor Johann Schmidt from Hamburg-Altona (~1838). 8 Stations were necessary to cover the distance: HH-Baumhaus am Hafen - HH-Kösterberg/Blankenese - Schulau - Stade - Hechthausen - Wingst - Otterndorf - Cuxhaven. Later telegraph insprector Friedrich Clemens Gerke, joint the telegraph company but changed soon to the 'Electro - Magnetischen Telegraphen" because of it's advanteges.

At end of the 1830's electrical power from chemical batteries become availabel, the galvanics elements. Two different materials between an electrolyte produce between 1.5 and 2.5 Volts per element. One could stack elements one behind an other to gain higher voltages.

In autum of 1886 Heinrich Hertz of Hamburg discovered electro- magnetic waves at the University of Karlsruhe. His findings was much time ahead of the than possibile technical realisisation for communication purposes. It took an other decade before young italian Guglielmo Marconi started his experiments with the "Hertzian Waves". It was the beginning of the wireless