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.
I tried to take the day off after getting copper, but I was too excited, and nothing seemed more fun than this. So I ran up Iron Mountain (my furnace is at the base of it) and grabbed these rusty looking rocks from the collapsed shaft of a mine. A bloomery furnace, to make wrought iron, is around the same temperature as a copper smelting furnace. With a few discs of iron, I’ll have electricity.
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