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Smoke and Messages

  • April 13, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Smoke signals were used as far back as ancient China, when soldiers along the Great Wall could send attack warnings several hundred miles in an hour. Native American tribes used different systems to communicate via smoke, the better to keep their enemies in the dark.

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