STAS

• Communication during the Industrial Age

  Samuel F.B Morse invented the telegraph which became the standard for international communication with a modified code.

  Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone, an electric tool transmitting analogue speech along wires. 

  Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
• Information Age


  A historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology
• Other names for the Information Age


  • Computer Age
  • Digital Age
  • New Media Age
  • Internet Age
• Fremont Rider described the miniaturized microform analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons and other institutions


  1945
• Moore's law was formulated. It is an observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years

  1965
• Production of the smaller and less expensive personal computers allowed for direct access to information


  Early 1980s
• Nicholas Negroponte published his book, Being Digital, the similarities and differences between products made of atoms and bits


  1995
• Stages of the Information Age

  • Primary Information Age (newspaper, radio, television)
  • Secondary Information Age (Internet, satellite television and mobile phones)
  • Tertiary Information Age (Primary and Secondary Information Age interconnected)
• Pre-industrial Age technologies


  • Stone tools
  • Papyrus scrolls
  • Clay tablets
  • Hand stencils and geometric shapes
  • Printing press
• Industrial Age


  A period of history characterized by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines and the concentration of industry in large establishments
• Communication technologies of the Industrial Age

  • Telegraph
  • Telephone
  • Phonograph
  • Radio
• Samuel F.B Morse invented the telegraph which became the standard for international communication with a modified code
• Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone, an electric tool transmitting analogue speech along wires
• Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound
• Heinrich Hertz identified and studied radio waves in 1886
• Guiglielmo Marconi developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers
• Philo Farnsworth invented the first fully electronic television. It became an important mass medium for advertising, propaganda and entertainment.
• Pre-industrial Age


  A time before there were machines and tools to help them perform the tasks
• Early technology development


  About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, and bury their dead
• Pre-industrial communications


  • Limited between communities, people used traditional paper and writing materials, signs or symbols to communicate with each other
• Pre-industrial communication methods


  • Egyptians used papyrus scrolls, Sumerians used clay tablets, Pre-historic men used hand stencils and simple geometric shapes to create art on the walls of caves
• Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press

  Renaissance period
• Industrial Age


  A period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments
• Industrial Age communications


  • Samuel F.B Morse invented the telegraph, Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, Heinrich Hertz identified and studied radio waves, Guiglielmo Marconi developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers, Philo Farnsworth invented the first fully electronic television
• Electronic Age


  Began when electronic equipment and large technologies, including computers came into use. The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age.
• Electronic Age technologies


  • Transistor radio, Enigma machine, EDSAC, ENIAC, UNIVAC, IBM, Hewlett Packard 9100A, Floppy disk, Walkman
• Information Age


  People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized.
• Information Age technologies


  • YouTube, Facebook, MacBook
• Transistor


  Led to the creation of other media tools
• Enigma machine


  Piece of spook hardware used as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two
• Transistor radio


  Became the most popular electronic communication and device in history
• EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator)


  Considered to be the first stored program electronic computer
• ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)


  First electronic general purpose digital computer
• UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer)


  Line of electronic digital stored-program computers
• IBM


  First mass produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware
• Hewlett Packard 9100A


  Early computer or programmable calculator
• Floppy disk


  Removable magnetic storage medium
• Walkman


  Originally used for portable audio cassette players