Timeline for How long did it take to get news of the sighting of the Spanish Armada from Land’s End to London?
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| Jul 6, 2022 at 18:08 | answer | added | Dr Tom Welsh | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 7:06 | comment | added | Jan | @Sherwood Botsford That the battles of Plataea and Mycale (between Greeks and Persians) allegedly took.place on the same day is sometimes attributed to the use of beacons. The Eastern Roman Empire also had a long-distance beacon system. | |
| Apr 20, 2019 at 15:52 | comment | added | Sherwood Botsford | Are there other historical uses of chains of beacons to compare to? This could be an interesting episode for that show that recreates historical technology. | |
| Nov 27, 2018 at 17:33 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | For comparison, the Chappe optical telegraph from the late 18th century was able to transmit a message from Lille to Paris (230 km) in less than an hour. It's hard to draw firm conclusions from this, since the two systems were so different; but it does seem to me that a half-hour seems a bit fast while 12 hours seems rather slow. | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 12:43 | vote | accept | Lars Bosteen | ||
| Mar 13, 2018 at 9:12 | history | edited | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2018 at 19:47 | answer | added | Sherwood Botsford | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 19:42 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/972558376285757440 | ||
| Mar 10, 2018 at 15:37 | history | edited | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 14:40 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | @Richard My estimate is based on York being about 400 miles from Penzance, London about 300, but I'm also assuming a less direct 'beacon route' to York (i.e. 450 or even perhaps 500 miles). | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 14:15 | comment | added | Richard | @LarsBosteen - Note that London and York are really quite far away | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 10:30 | answer | added | KillingTime | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 9:07 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | True, but hopefully someone can come up with something better than between 30 minutes (LOR site) and perhaps 6 to 8 hours (estimate based on York). | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 8:59 | comment | added | KillingTime | Given the lack of accurate timepieces and the lack of a country-wide standard time, I think it's unlikely that you will get an accurate time for the transmission. E.g. assuming that the message was noted as reaching land at 7pm in Cornwall and arriving in London at 8pm, you can't be sure that the message took an hour to arrive because there was no synchronisation of clocks between the two locations. | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 8:12 | history | asked | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |