This is an iniatory project of internationaly efforts of people to make the 'Telegraphy & 500 kHz'
to become a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage (ICH). People are invited to join
in and learn to make contacts to their UNESCO national members who shall promote
the process of introducing it.

Contributions to launch heritages are limited to those countries who have signed the
relevant UNESCO resolutions intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Until 2010 following
states were elected members of the comittee:

Belarus Central African Republic Croatia Cuba Cyprus
Estonia Gabon Hungary India Italy Jordan Kenya Mali
Mexico Niger Oman Paraguay Republic of Korea Peru Turkey
United Arab Emirates Viet Nam Venezuela Yemen Zimbabwe

Chairman of the committee of the ICH is 'at the time beeing unknown' (MAR2010).

All countries who have signed the
UNESCO convention of intangible cultural heritage as of September 2009:

Afghanistan Albania Algeria Argentina Armenia Austria Azerbaijan
Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Bhutan Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi
Cambodia Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia
Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic
Democratic People's Republic of Korea Denmark Djibouti
Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Estonia
Ethiopia France Gabon Georgia Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea
Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Italy Japan Jordan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Lithuania
Luxembourg Madagascar Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Monaco
Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nicaragua
Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea
Paraguay Peru Philippines Portugal Qatar Republic of Korea
Republic of Moldova Romania Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Slovakia
Slovenia Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Togo Tunisia Turkey
Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uruguay Uzbekistan
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Viet Nam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

The working languages of UNESCO are: arabic, chinese, english, french, russian, spain

Unesco intangible cultural heritage ICH
ITU, International Telecommunication Union
IMO, International Maritime Organisation
Unesco Deutschland

Explanatory 'Telegraphy'

The telegram came into existence in the 1830s. Using electrical signals over wires, it was possible to transfer messages from one fixed place to another instantly, independent of daylight and weather conditions. Especially railway companies in the USA and elsewhere maintained telegraph lines to manage their service. So one could submit a telegram at one station and have it transferred by telegraph operators to the   destination station from where it was rushed to its final receipient by a messenger.

From the mid-1850s submarine cables were laid between continents. The first long distance cables ran between Europe and North America.  In 1865, at the suggestion of the French government, the International Telegraph Union (ITU-UIT) was founded to set the rules of communication.

By 1900, with the invention of and developments made in wireless technology, even ships at sea could be reached. The link between land and sea were coastal radio stations, which were erected in many parts of the world. The telegram was the most vital means of transporting urgent information at high speed via cable and/or wireless to every corner of the globe. In 1900 it took approximately two hours to send a west-bound telegram back to its point of origin.

The person who sent a telegram had to pay for it on a per word basis. So everyone kept messages as short as possible. The resulting language was called "telegram style". Sending a telegram to a ship was extraordinaryly expensive because the sender had to pay landline, coaststation and shipstation charges. A word might cost as much as 1.50 Goldfranks, sometimes even more.

Until the 1980s the maritime radio service was operated manually by especially trained personnel at sea- and at coastal radio stations. The telegrams were transmitted in Morse-Gerke-Code.

The Sputnik satellite, launched in 1957, heralded a new era. From the 1990s on, with the use of the new system, anyone, at anytime and anywhere was reachable. The transfer was provided by the new technology. Thus the telegram found its successors in TELEX, FAX, SMS and e-mail. The times when a telegram was delivered by a messenger to its addressee are gone for ever.

Major Telegraph Lines 1910
Source : Wikipedia