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Inventing Bond: Wiretapping

Patented: History of Inventions

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The History of Telegraph Sounders

A pocket sounder is a device that both receives and sends telegraph signals. It almost looks like a little hammer and it taps out the electronic... Like a Morse code tapper. Civil War operators would use them to hook into the telegraph system wherever they were. The idea of actually using them to spread disinformation, I mean all the news over the last five years has been about disinformation - this isn't new.

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