Sunday 16 June 2019

The Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)

People use power of steam, developed machine tools, iron production, and manufacturing of various products (including books through  printing press)
Telephone (1876)
Alexander Graham Bell’s Large BoxTelephone1876. On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the telephone.
Typewriter (1800)
The first typewriter 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.
Newspaper-The London Gazette (1640)
The London Gazette 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
Printing Press for mass production (19thCent)
printing press 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.
Motion Pictures Photography/Projection (1890)
This article is about the history of motionpicture technology. For the history of film as an artistic medium, see History of film. Cinématographe Lumière at the Institut Lumière, France. The history of film technology traces the development of film technology from the initial
Commercial Motion Pictures w/ sound (1913)
sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to …. In1913, Edison introduced a new cylinder-based synch-sound apparatus known, just like his 1895 system, as the Kinetophone; … By the mid-1910s, the groundswell in commercial sound motion picture exhibition had subsided.
Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraphrevolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
Punch Cards
History of the punch card. The standard punched card, originally invented by Herman Hollerith, was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states. After this trial use,punched cards were adopted for use in the 1890 census.
whatis.techtarget.com/reference/History-of-the-punch-card

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