Industrial Age (1700s-1930s) Flashcards

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People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press).

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Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)

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The London Gazette isone of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.

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Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640)

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The printing press isa device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers.

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Printing press for mass production (19th century)

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is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer’s movable type.

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A typewriter (Christopher Sholes) 1800

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Alexander Graham Bellsuccessfully received a patent for the telephoneand secured the rights to the discovery. Days later, he made the first ever telephone call to his partner, Thomas Watson.

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Telephone On March 7, 1876

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In 1890Dicksonunveiled the Kinetograph, a primitive motion picture camera. In 1892 he announced the invention of the Kinestoscope, a machine that could project the moving images onto a screen.

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Motion picture photography/projection
(1890)

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A film, also calleda movie,motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still imageswhich, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to thephi phenomenon.

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COMMERCIAL MOTION PICTURE 1913

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Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.

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TELEGRAPH 1840s

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Asound filmis amotion picturewith synchronized
sound, orsound
technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silentfilm.

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Motion picture with sound (1926)

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is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes. Punched cards were once common in data processing and the control of automated machines.

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A punched card

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