History of Media

R.INNES
Definition

 The main means of mass communication

(broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet)
regarded collectively.
Cave paintings
Hieroglyphics
Alphabet

 By at least the 8th century BCE the Greeks borrowed the

Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their own language,
creating in the process the first "true" alphabet, in which vowels
were accorded equal status with consonants.
Hand written
 Newspapers

The first successful daily

newspaper in Britain was printed
in 1702. The first American
newspaper was printed in 1690. It
was called Publick Occurrences
Both Forreign and Domestick. ... In
1814 The Times was printed with a
steam-powered press for the first
time.
Morse Code

 Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-

off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled
listener or observer without special equipment. It is named for Samuel F. B.
Morse, an inventor of the telegraph.
 Printing Press

It is not known exactly when the movable type

printing press was invented. It appears to have been
invented around 1439 or 1440. Gutenberg's invention
was profoundly important. It launched a revolution in
printing.

Johannes Gutenberg Inventor

 Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S.

patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876.
Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a
water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. ... Thomas
Edison invented the carbon microphone which
produced a strong telephone signal.
 Type Writer

 The first typewriter to be commercially

successful was invented in 1878 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.
 Radio

In 1864 James Clerk Maxwell showed mathematically

that electromagnetic waves could propagate
through free space. ... Starting in late 1894,
Guglielmo Marconi began pursuing the idea of
building a wireless telegraphy system based on
Hertzian waves (radio).
Computer

 The computer as we know it today had

its beginning with a 19th century English
mathematics professor name Charles
Babbage. He designed the Analytical
Engine and it was this design that the
basic framework of the computers of
today are based on.
Cinema

The earliest films were in black and white, under a minute

long and without recorded sound. During the 1890s films
became several minutes long and started to consist of
several shots. The first film studios were built in 1897. The first
rotating camera for taking panning shots was built in 1898.
 Television

This device was created independently by two

inventors: Scottish inventor John Logie Baird and
American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins. Both
devices were invented in the early 1920s. Prior to
these two inventors, German inventor Paul Gottlieb
Nipkow had developed the first mechanical
television.
Internet

 The history of the Internet begins

with the development of
electronic computers in the
1950s. ... Commercial Internet
service providers (ISPs) began to
emerge in the very late 1980s.
The ARPANET was
decommissioned in 1990.
Mobile Phone

The first mobile phone invented for practical use was

by a Motorola employee called Martin Cooper who
is widely considered to be a key player in the history
of mobile phones. ... Cooper made mobile phone
history in April 1973 when he made the first ever call
on a handheld mobile phone.