so this is albert jay meyers on the left, he is born in newburgh in 1828. newburgh is not too far away from the west, where the united states military academy at west point, he becomes the chief signal officer and he becomes a pioneer in these weak signals, which i'll talk about shortly i will come. back to porter alexander, who's actually the who's the source of the quote. that's the title of my talk. but the reason i want to link them here to is, is one i'm sorry. i mean, let me say, meyer is actually a doctor. okay? so he develops this type of signaling, basically this attempt to use signal flags to transmit messages. right. basically, like what, you know, depending on whether it's left or right, it's one or two and then it later becomes a cipher. basically, the transmission of messages basically by people sitting on a hilltop. right. hawks who are who are waving this signal. fox right. so he's not a west pointer. he's not a regular army officer. he's not he's actually a doctor. okay. and it seems that the source of some of his of these ideas actually co