MIL|WEEK 2 Flashcards
Evolution Of Media(8)
Prehistoric/Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)
Cave Paintings (35,000 Bc)
Papyrus In Egypt (2500 Bc)
Acta Diurna In Rome (130 Bc)
Clay Tablets In Mesopotamia (2400 Bc)
Printing Press Using Wood Blocks (220 Ad)
Codex In The Mayan Region (5th Century)
Dibao In China (2nd Century)
People discovered fire Developed paper from plants Forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.
PREHISTORIC/PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (BEFORE 1700S)
CAVE PAINTINGS
35,000 BC
papyrus) which once grew in abundance, primarily in the wilds of the Egyptian Delta but also elsewhere in the Nile River Valley, but is now quite rare.
The papyrus of Egypt is most closely associated with writing
Paper (English word) comes from the word ‘papyrus’ - but the Egyptians found many uses for the plant other than a writing surface for documents and texts.
PAPYRUS IN EGYPT (2500 BC)
recorded proceedings transactions
acta
daily acts/ daily public records
acta diurnal
ACTA DIURNA IN ROME (130 BC)
Writing was inscribed on clay tablets.
Scribes would take a stylus (a stick made from a reed) and press the lines and symbols into soft, moist clay.
Once they were done, they would let the clay harden and they had a permanent record.
CLAY TABLETS IN MESOPOTAMIA (2400 BC)
AD = Anno Domini
Technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia
Originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD.
The technology of creating carvings in a raised form(engraving the text or image on a block of wood) and then applying ink to it to stamp it onto blank white paper.
PRINTING PRESS USING WOOD BLOCKS (220 AD)
These are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
Mayan paper was made out of the inner bark of wild fig trees, and the sheets were folded like an accordion.
On this kind of paper the Mayas recorded their hieroglyphic writing, the only true writing system in the Americas before the European arrival.
CODEX IN THE MAYAN REGION (5TH CENTURY)
is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world
DIBAO IN CHINA (2ND CENTURY)
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press).
Is 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 (1700S-1930S)
claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as The Oxford Gazette.
NEWSPAPER - THE LONDON GAZETTE (1640)
Is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer’s movable type.
TYPEWRITER (1800)
Is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
In 1876, Scottish emigrant Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice.
TELEPHONE (1876)
Also called a film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light.
Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement.
MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY/PROJECTION (1890)
