BC Class One Evolution of Comm

7/31/2019 BC Class One Evolution of Comm

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WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?


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Communication is

The process of conveying meaningful information;

Requires a sender, a message and an intendedreceiver;

The communication process is complete when thereceiver has understood the message of the sender.


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Types

Oral Communciation

Non-Verbal Communication

Written Communication


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Platforms of Communication?


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Evolution of Communication

600 Years: 3500 BC-to 2900 BC

The Phoenicians develop

an alphabet.The Sumerians develop cuneiform

writing - pictographs of accounts

written on clay tablets.The Egyptians develop hieroglyphic

writing.
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Next 1000 yrs

1775 BC

Greeks use a phonetic alphabet written fromleft to right.

1400 BC

Oldest record of writing in China on bones.

1270 BC

The first encyclopedia is written in Syria.

900 BC

The very first postal service - for government

use in China.


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Evolution of Communication Media

776 BC: First recorded use of homing pigeonsused to send message - the winner of the

Olympic Games to the Athenians.

530 BC: The Greeks start the very first library

500-170 BC : Papyrus rolls and earlyparchments made of dried reeds - firstportable and light writing surfaces

200-100 BC: Human messengers on foot orhorseback common in Egypt and China withmessenger relay stations built


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37 BC: Heliographs - first recorded use of

mirrors to send messages by Roman Emperor

Tiberius.

100 BC :First bound books

105 BC :Tsai Lun of China invents paper as we

know it.

305 BC: First wooden printing presses

invented in China - symbols carved on a

wooden block.


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Evolution of the Platforms of

Communication 1450

Newspapers appear in Europe.

1455

Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable type.

1650

First daily newspaper - Leipzig.

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Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter.
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1867: American, Sholes the first successful and

modern typewriter.1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the

electric telephone..
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1902 :Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals

from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radiosignal across the Atlantic Ocean.

1910 :Thomas Edison demonstrated thefirst talking motion picture.

1914:First cross continental telephone call made.

1916 :First radios with tuners - different stations.

1925:John Logie Baird transmits the firstexperimental television signal
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The Dawn of Computers and Internet

and Mobile Telephony

1969 :ARPANET - the first Internet started.

1979 :First cellular phone communication networkstarted in Japan..

1981 :IBM PC first sold. First laptop computers sold to

public.

First cellular phone network started in the UnitedStates.

1985 :Cellular telephones in cars become wide-spread.CD-ROMs in computers.

1994:American government releases control ofinternet and WWW is born -
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