>> Even more than whether it was "feasible", I was wondering whether it's
>> an idea that anyone would have even thought of. Did people know enough
>> about electricity to realise that you could use it to transmit
>> information?
>
> yes Marconi... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi

...who apparently died exactly one century after the Analytical Engine 
was designed...

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