Communication through time Flashcards
Name the five oldest forms of human communication
Language, symbols, songs, art and dance
Which early people in South Africa used hand signals while they were hunting?
San hunter-gatherers
What is the most common form of communication?
Speaking words
What is one of the most important ways of communicating through spoken language?
Stories
In which two ways did the San people communicate through art?
Through painting and engravings
What are engravings?
Pictures scratched onto rocks
What were the San people’s paintings and engravings about?
Their religion
What were Xhosa speaking peoples songs about?
Their history and things that were happening in the local area at the time
Name three instruments that African people used
Uhadi
Umrhube
Mbira
What was the earliest postal system?
The post stone
Where was the stone found?
On Robben Island
Who started a post service at the Cape?
Dutch and British settlers
Who carried the male inland?
Farmers and runners
In what year did the first mail coach leave Cape Town?
- It went as far as Swellendam and also carried passengers
What was the first typewriter called?
A writing piano
What was the problem with the early typewriter?
The keys kept jamming
Which keyboard was invented to solve this problem?
The QWERTY keyboard
Which machine allowed people to send messages along an electrical wire?
The Telegraph (invented in the 1800s)
How were the messages sent via the Telegraph?
Messages were sent in Morse code
What is Morse code?
A language that uses short and long signals
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
When was the first telephone invented?
1876
Who nearly invented the telephone (and why only nearly)?
Elisha Gray — he arrived a few hours after Bell to register his invention, but he was too late
Who invented the radio?
Guglielmo Marconi
