WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY: GLOBAL EMERGENCE, STRATEGIC USES AND THE LATE OTTOMAN RESPONSE
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Modern telecommunications took shape in the nineteenth century with the emergence of the electric telegraph and its expansion across wide geographies through land lines and submarine cables, fundamentally transforming communication, administration, and warfare. At the beginning of the twentieth century, wireless telegraphy introduced a new technological regime that disrupted established cable networks and reconfigured the strategic balance of global communications, expanding the military, competitive, and intelligence-related dimensions of communication. This article examines the global rise and strategic implications of wireless telegraphy, together with the Ottoman Empire’s practices of adopting and employing this new technology. While the Ottoman state embraced wireless telegraphy for military, administrative, and maritime purposes, it also increasingly perceived the technology as a security risk due to its potential use in espionage. In response, a detailed guide was prepared to detect clandestine wireless installations. Drawing on extensive Ottoman and British archival sources, the study employs a historical international relations methodology to analyze wireless telegraphy within the intersecting domains of technology, imperial rivalry, internal security, and state governance, thereby contributing to the existing literature.
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Yakınçağ Akdeniz Tarihi, Yakınçağ Denizcilik Tarihi, Yakınçağ Osmanlı Tarihi
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0000-0002-8513-8433
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
4 Haziran 2026
Gönderilme Tarihi
5 Ocak 2026
Kabul Tarihi
28 Nisan 2026
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2026 Sayı: 37