Immaculate Telegraphy

Could humans at any point in history, given the right information, construct an electronic communication network? To test this hypothesis, Substitute Materials is attempting to build a functional electric battery and telegraph switch from materials found in the wilderness, using no modern tools except information from the internet. The telegraph will be a first step towards an ahistorical internet.

Seesion 2, focusing on raising the temperature of copper ores to their melting point, is currently underway

This project has received the Eyebeam Honorary Residency.

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Constructing a Smelting Furnace.

This pit is where I hope to smelt my copper ores in a charcoal fire. The bellows were constructed with two deer hides given to me as a gift. I did not head off into the woods with my stone tools and kill a deer, or pick apart a carcass for these, so there is another invisible technological process that has taken place. Still, a deer hide is a reasonable thing to assume for most parts of history, and I worked the hides entirely with stone and bone tools. I did get the bones from a carcass. yum.

Posted Tuesday, June 23rd, at 10:42 AM (∞).

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