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About a thousand years ago, Passenger Piegons(now extinct) were used for
communication by famous people such as Napoleon and Julius Caesar. They trained
their piegons to come back when released. They wrote a message on a piece of paper
and tied the message onto the piegon's foot. Then they let it go. When a person got
the message, they could write a message themselves and send the piegon back with it
tied on its foot. Messages were often coded back then, so if the wrong person got the
message, they would'NT be able to read it. I believe they used the system till the
telephone was invented. The last Passenger Piegon died in 1914.
Answer:
Pigeons were used to carry messages from places several hundred miles away back to their home coop, where the messages were retrieved. These birds were domestic forms of the wild European rock dove, which is the common feral pigeon of cities and towns.
Also, the passenger pigeon, (Ectopistes migratorius,) was a large North American dove, somewhat larger than a morning dove, that existed in enormous flocks, numbering in the billions.
It was never domesticated, or used for messages. It was driven to extinction by indiscriminate hunting.The above answer is probably thinking of the term "carrier" pigeon, which was used to describe the domestic birds used in carrying messages.
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When were birds first used in communication?
In ancient China, pigeons were used as messengers.
What communication was used before the printing press?
sign language
Where did carrier pigeons originate?
Carrier pigeons were birds used to carry messages before the invention of modern communication devices, beginning as early as the 15th century. Some species of pigeons will instinctively fly back to their homes even if released far away, hence the name "homing pigeons" which are still used as "racing pigeons."
Why Did thy stop using messenger pigeons?
They stopped it because technology developed over time and more fast means of communication were invented.
Can homing pigeons carry messages?
They carried messages from one location to another. Before the advent of the telegraph, they were the fastest means of communication over long distances, and they were still used for a time after the telephone and radio were introduced.
What were the means of communication in ancient time?
Before the phone, but after the common use of electricity, the most common method of communication quickly across country was the telegram. Before electricity, smoke signals were used, or sometimes signal flags of some kind.
Did Hammurabi like pigeons?
The use of pigeons for communication dates back millennia, from use in Ancient Greece to communicate the results of the Olympic Games, to use by Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and the Crusaders to communicate from battlefields. Historians don't have the fact but it was most likely that he used pigeons for carrying messages.
What forms of communication were avalible before the telephone was invented?
Pigeons or mail
Was there communication for all back in World War 1?
they used carrier pigeons because they're telephone lines got destroyed from the gunfire.
What did the notes say from world war 1 that homing pigeons delivered?
Pigeons played a vital part in World War One as they proved to be an extremely reliable way of sending messages. Such was the importance of pigeons that over 100,000 were used in the war with an astonishing success rate of 95% getting through to their destination with their message. Pigeons were used extensively in World War One. Man-made communication systems were still crude and unreliable, so dogs and pigeons were used. Pigeons would have been found just about anywhere on the Western Front. At the First Battle of the Marne in 1914, French troops stopped the German advance on Paris.
What are the alternatives of communication?
mailSemaphore, message couriers, tapping, carrier pigeons, and sign language
How were stone tablets used as a means of communication?
to text
