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Communication
Ways communications have changed from early human civilization to modern times
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language.
Invented about 3,500 BC, that is, 5,500 years ago.
Paper
Paper was made to enable people to communicate their ideas in a written expression.
The credit for inventing the original paper goes to Chinese man Tsai Lun
The Postal System
Chinese developed a postal system to deliver written messages.
Created about 900 BC.
The Later Postal System
The Envelope:The first envelopes were made of cloth, animal skins, or vegetable parts. The Babylonians wrapped their message in thin sheets of clay that were then baked
The Mail:In 1653, Frenchman, De Valayer established a postal system in Paris. He set up mail boxes and delivered any letters placed in them if they used envelopes that only he sold.
The StampA schoolmaster from England, Rowland Hill invented the adhesive postage stamp in 1837
Writing
The Pencil• The first
complete pencil was made from a mixture of graphite and clay that was fired in a kiln.
• February 1790.
Quill• A writing
utensil made from the flight feather of a bird.
• March 1800.
Roller Ball Pens• Created for
an easy to use pen.
• March 1888.
The First Printed Book
The first book printed on a printing press using movable type was the Gutenburg Bible printed by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany .
Made in 1450.
The First Working Electric Telegraph
An American painter Samuel Morse made the
first working electric telegraph
using an electromagnet. January 1835
tv 1872 - 1877 A series of photographs can be v1872 - 1877 A series of photographs
can be viewed by stroboscopic disc. 1884 George Eastman invents flexible photographic film. 1887 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera. 1888 Edison attempts to record picture photos onto a wax cylinder. 1891 - 1895 Dickson shoots numerous 15 second motion pictures using Edison's kineograph, his motion picture camera. 1895 First public demonstration of motion pictures displayed in France. 1897 Development of the Cathode Ray Tube by Ferdinand Braun. 1907 Use of cathode ray tube to produce television images. 1923 Patent for the iconoscope, the forerunner of the picture tube. 1927 Talking films begin with Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer". Early 1930s RCA conducts black and white broadcasting experiments. 1936 First television broadcast made available in London. 1938 Initial proposal for color TV broadcast made by George Valensi. 1945 There were fewer than 7,000 working TV sets in the country and only nine stations on the air; three in New York, two each in Chicago and Los Angeles, and one each in Philadelphia and Schenectady, N.Y. iewed by stroboscopic disc. 1884 George Eastman invents flexible photographic film. 1887 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera. 1888 Edison attempts to record picture photos onto a wax cylinder. 1891 - 1895 Dickson shoots numerous 15 second motion pictures using Edison's kineograph, his motion picture camera. 1895 First public demonstration of motion pictures displayed in France. 1897 Development of the Cathode Ray Tube by Ferdinand Braun. 1907 Use of cathode ray tube to produce television images. 1923 Patent for the iconoscope, the forerunner of the picture tube. 1927 Talking films begin with Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer". Early 1930s RCA conducts black and white broadcasting experiments. 1936 First television broadcast made available in London. 1938 Initial proposal for color TV broadcast made by George Valensi. 1945 There were fewer than 7,000 working TV sets in the country and only nine stations on the air; three in New York, two each in Chicago and Los Angeles, and one each in Philadelphia and Schenectady, N.Y.
Radio The early history of radio is the history of technology that produced
radio instruments that use radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy", first invented by David Edward Hughes waves.
Plane
A man named Otto Lilienthal inspired the Wright brothers to build their first airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to pilot powered flight on December 17th 1903
Video ChatVideo chat is also known as video
conferencing. This was developed at the same time as the television. They consisted at first of two closed-circuit television systems that were connected through cable. NASA used this type of communication on the first manned space flights.
The Telephone Alexander
Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10th, 1876, through the Liquid Transmitter he had designed.
The Mobile TelephoneThe first mobile phone weighed
about 76lbs (34kg) or can be 2.5 pounds.
In 1946 a mobile telephone service (MTS) was
introduced by AT&T in the United States. June 17,
1946 a driver in St. Louis made the first mobile
telephone call.
Micro-wave
The micro wave was invented to heat food. Jan 1955
Photography
Photography is a method of recording images by the action of light, or related
radiation, on a sensitive material
Joseph Nicephore Niepcemade made the first photographic image with a camera obscura.
Taken in the summer of 1827
The First Photograph taken with…
The Computer
The first computer was called the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer).
the first one manufactured was on February 14, 1946. It was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania
Satellites History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union
successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
Game Consoles
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console, released in 1972
•The Atari 2600 became the most popular game console of the second generation.
•The NES made video games popular again after the 1983 crash.
•The Sony PlayStation became the most popular system of the fifth generation consoles, eventually selling over 100 million systems.
The release of the Xbox 360 began the seventh generation.
The Wii U is an upcoming video game console from Nintendo as the successor to the Wii.
Social media 2001
May 1-Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, launches.November - StumbleUpon, a website that recommends web content to its users, begins.
2003
May - LinkedIn begins. LinkedIn strives to be known as a business-related social networking site used by professionals from its inception.May 23 - Wordpress, a publishing platform that hosts blogs, is released.
2004
January - Myspace is launched.January 4 - Google begins Gmail.February - Flickr, an image and video hosting website, goes live.March 1 - Facebook, a social networking service which began at Harvard, expands to other universities.
2005
FebruaryYoutube, a video-sharing website, goes live.
2006
JuneMyspace becomes the most popular social networking site in the United States.July 15Twitter, a website for mini-blogging and social networking, begins.
