History of mail. From pigeon to electronic
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The development of mail as a system for transmitting correspondence took hundreds of years, and for this a person adapted many of his inventions. So from pigeon mail or signal smoke from bonfires, we came to the delivery of the correspondence with drones and email. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus said: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor the darkness of the night will keep the couriers from the speedy completion of the destined path." These words are so correctly displayed by the main task of the mail that they have become the unofficial motto of the US postal service. In our book you will find many interesting facts and learn: what is a hobby, like collecting postcards, occupies the third place around the world in popularity that the reading of other people"s letters is called "Black Cabinet" that people send more than 267 billion emails daily, that in Russia there was a special breed of horses for postal triples - a Vyatka horse. Gogol wrote about her, comparing Rus" with a three bird. ... And you knew that there was an underwater mail, catastrophe mail, tram mail?! Read about this and much more on the pages of this exciting book
Author:
Author:Перов Марк
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:newspaper
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-227-09885-6
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