LESSON 2 Flashcards
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791- 1872) and other inventors, the___ revolutionized long- distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
telegraph
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. Examples:
Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)
was only used in Egypt, but by about 1000 BC people all over West Asia began buying papyrus from Egypt and using it, since it was much more convenient than clay tablets(less breakable, and not as heavy!).
First papyrus
encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters.
cave painting
is one of themost famous prehistoric rock art sites in the world
Chauvet Cave
were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.
clay tablets
is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world.
dibao
are folding books written by the pre- Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark cloth.
Maya codices
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press).
industrial age
scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use, or even to recommend it.
typewriter
is one 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. The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving
English newspaper.
The London Gazette
is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses.
printing press
traces the development of film technology from the initial development of “moving pictures” at the end of 19th century to the present time. Motion pictures were initially exhibited as a fairground novelty and developed into one of the most important tools
of communication and entertainment in the 20th century.
history of film technology
is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
sound film
