Category: Infrastructure Fears

• The "Telegraph" Weather Control

  This theory held that the expansion of telegraph and telephone wires across the landscape was not simply changing communication, but changing the weather itself. In some versions, wires caused storms, droughts, or atmospheric irregularities; in others, they altered natural electricity and produced the “weird weather” of the 1910s. The theory belongs to a long tradition of linking new infrastructure to environmental disorder, especially when the infrastructure was both visible and poorly understood by non-specialists.