[idatum]

I couple years ago I read "A Mind at Play", Soni & Goodman, a biography on Claude Shannon. He grew up on a farm and the book mentions how he made extensive use of barbed wire fence telegraph (and if I recall telephone). Perhaps one of the early experiences Shannon had regarding information.

The MIT Museum had a display (last year) of Shannon's "toys", including the famous mouse maze. I don't recall any mention of his early days using barbed wire telegraph though.

[JackAcid]

I’ve had that book for several years. This thread has finally motivated me to start it.

[westurner]

"The Bit Player" (2018) film, "The Information" (Gleick) book,

"Who invented the transistor?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449618 :

> Who invented the electric fence gate?

> How does the electric fence gate lead to transistors?

> [ Relay, Electric gate, Flip-flop (electronics) ]

/? find a specific transcript from "The Bit Player" and "Claude Shannon: The Father of the Information Age" IEEE Information Theory Society video where the narrator makes the leap from the Morse dots and dashes on fence wire to the math of entropy (and logarithms and channel coding and capacity limits)

[aspenmayer]

> /? find a specific transcript from "The Bit Player" and "Claude Shannon: The Father of the Information Age" IEEE Information Theory Society video where the narrator makes the leap from the Morse dots and dashes on fence wire to the math of entropy (and logarithms and channel coding and capacity limits)

Who is meant to be doing the finding, in this case?