Derek Bridges

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest published instances of the word beep appeared in the late 1920s and 30s in reference to the sound of a car horn. But in 1951 Arthur C. Clarke wrote in Sands of Mars, “The carrier wave … now modulated into an endless string of ‘beep-beep-beeps.'” The beep, as we know it, was born.

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