A Lead

[tealin]

... In 1795 George Murray invented a version that is close to the system currently used in Discworld: a set of six shutters that could be opened or closed, thus giving 64 'codes', more than enough for the entire alphabet, numbers 0 to 10 and some 'special' codes. The system was further developed but ceased to be cutting-edge technology when the electric telegraph heralded the wired age. The Discworld semaphore (or 'clacks') has been taken much further, with mighty trunk route towers carrying bank after bank of shutters, aided by lamps after dark, and streaming messages bi-directionally across the continent.

The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (pg. 181)

1:11 pm
VICTORY IS MINE! AAHAHAHAHAHAAA!! Thank you library! Thank you random website that popped up in my search! Thank you Geoffrey Wilson!

HAH! HA HA HA! HA HAAA!



This picture contains notes which may be spoilers if you haven't read (or finished)Going Postal yet and are planning to.
How many plot elements can you find in one entirely unrelated engraving? The only thing it's missing is anything to do with the actual postal service.
(Okay, the seamstresses don't play a big part in GP but she looked like one so I couldn't resist. And one of the soldiers looks like he forgot his trousers, or else spandex was invented far earlier than anyone had suspected...)

Comments

Spandex?

[(Anonymous)]

That cheeky soldier!

Re: Spandex?

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

...I wonder who this could be...

Who was that masked man? And in his wake - he left puns!

[anathelen.livejournal.com]

You've got me interested in Going Postal now, there's no question. *shakes fist at the local library system for not having any copies*

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

:D That is impossibly sweet. *applauds*