MIL: Evolution of Media Flashcards
Before 1700; BCE
- People discovered fire, developed paper form plants, and forged equipment from weapon though stones, bronze, copper, and iron.
Pre-Industrial Age
Pre-Industrial. 35, 000 BCE
* Also known as “PARIETAL ART”
* Painted/draw on cave walls and ceilings
* First used in Eurasia
* Theorized as ways of communicating; theorized also as for religious or ceremonial purposes
Cave Painting
Pre-Industrial. 2, 500 BCE
* From “pith” of Papyrus plant; similar to a thick paper
* First used in Ancient Egypt; earliest archeological evidence
Papyrus
Pre-Industrial. In 2, 400 BCE
* Writing medium, writing in cuneiform during Bronze & Iron Age
* Invented probably by the Sumerians
Clay Tables in Mesopotamia
Pre-Industrial. First newspaper in the world
* First used in Roman Republic
* Stated results of legal proceedings and outcomes of trials as well as Public and Military notices
Acta Diurna
Pre-Industrial. System conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles
Semaphor Flags
Pre-Industrial. Main courier service.
Pony Express
1700 – 1930
- People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production
Industrial Age
Industrial. London Gazette
* 1740; one of the official journals of record of the British
Government
* Oldest surviving English newspaper
Newspaper
Industrial. 1874 or 1800
* Mechanical and electromechanical machine for
writing characters
Typewriter
Industrial. 2nd century;
* “palace reports” and “imperial bulletin”
* First used in early as the Han Dynasty or as late as the Tang Dynasty
Dibao in China
Industrial. 1440 or 1900s
* Wilhelm Haas (Swiss Founder) and Charles Stanhope (built iron press)
* can print around 200 impressions per hour.
Printing Press for Mass Production
Industrial. Johannes Guttenberg (1448)
* One of the most important inventions in human kind.
German Printing Press
Industrial. 1876; telecommunication device
* Alexander Graham Bell was the first one to be granted
a US patent for a device
* In contrast, Antonio Meucci and Elisha Gray were said
to be the legit inventors
Telephone
Industrial. 1890; allows viewers to watch brief movie through a small peephole
* Developed by Thomas Edison from his other invention: phonograph
* Still survived in the form of peep shows
Kinetoscope
Industrial. 19th century; provide music to accompany the image of
the kinetoscope
Kinetophone
Industrial. Late 19th century:
* system of communication employing electronical apparatus to transmit and receive signals
* Invented by Samuel F.B. Morse in USA and in Britain by
Sir Charles Wheatstone with Sir William F. Cooke
Telegraph
People harnessed the power of electricity that led to electrical telegraph, electrical circuits.
Electronical Age
Electronical. Late 19th century; Hollerith’s _________ (Herman
Hollerith)
* Stiff paper used to contain digital information
* Card for computing data
* Have patterns of holes punched
Punch Card
Electronical. 1947; small portable radio that uses transistors in its circuits
Transistor Radio
Electronical. 1920; used for transmitting moving images
* Primary medium during 1950
Television
Electronical. 1946; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer/Calculator
* One of the earliest electronical general-purpose computers made
ENIAC
Meaning of EDSAC and EDVAC
EDSAC – Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
EDVAC - Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
Electronical. 1950; high level computer designed for most intensive computational task (stats)
Mainframe Computers
