INDUSTRIAL AGE

Periods of Media
 INDUSTRIAL AGE
1700s-1930s

 People used the power of steam, developed machine tools,

established iron production, and the manufacturing of various
products(including books, through the printing press).
Examples:
• Printing press ofr mass production (19th century)

• Newspaper- The London gazette (1640)

• Typewriter (1800)

• Telephone(1876)

• Motion Picture photography/projection (1890)

•Commercial motion pictures (1913)

•Motion picture with sound (1926)

•Telegraph

•Punch cards
 INDUSTRIAL AGE

Back in the 1800s during the Industrial Revolution ,

people had a very limited variety of ways to communicate
with each other.
One of the most advanced inventions of communication
was the printing press, until the telegraph was developed.
Printing stayed the main resource for mass messages and a
few years later the telegraph allowed instant communiction
over huge distances for the first time in human history.
But once the radio was eventually invented in the 1920s,
the usage of telegraphs faded almost completely.
 Jan 1, 1603, Pantograph Apr 4, 1876, The Telephone

Jan 10, 1680, The Mail Feb 19, 1878, The

System Phonograph
Jan 1, 1790, Jan 1, 1895, The Radio
Semaphore
Jan 4, 1824, Braille System Jan 1, 1902, Crayons

Jan 6, 1838, The First Electric Jan 1, 1937, The Walkie

Telegraph Talkie
May 27, 1843, The Fax Apr 3, 1973, Cell Phones
Machine
Jan 1, 1867, The Pantelegraph Jan 1, 1972, Email

Jan 1, 1873, The Type Writer

 PANTOGRAPH
 Created by Cristoph
Scheiner
 Instrument used for
enlarging or reducing
a geometric figure.
 It made an impact in
the invention of the
pantelegraph, which
was made in Industrial
Revolution.
THE MAIL SYSTEM
 Started with William
Dockwra and Robert
Murray
 Penny Post – the first
post office that delivers
mail for a penny
 The government shut
down his business, then
it reopened it as a branch
of royal mailing
 SEMAPHORE
 It’s how people
communicated before the
electric age of
communication
 Consists of a series of
hilltop stations that each
had large arms to signal
letters and numbers, and
on the hill tops ther were
two telescopes with
which to see the other
stations.
 BRAILLE
SYSTEM
 Called “night writing”
 Invented by Louis Braille,
 Tangible writing using dots
 A universally accepted
system of writing used by
and for blind people and
consisting of 63 characters.
 Valentin Hauy- first person
to emboss paper as means
of reading for the blind.
THE FIRST ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH
 Invented by Samuel F.B. Morse
 Morse invented the Morse Code
which is an assortment of dots and
dashes, this invention lead to the
first device that was able to send
message electronically.
 Main form of communication in
military.
 Worked by transmitting electric
signals over a wire laid between
two stations.
THE FAX MACHINE
 Invented by Alexander Brain
 Also known by its full name
“facsimile”
 Used to transmit images via
telephone lines, and it is
comprised of two pens
connected to pendulums;
they were then joined to a
wire, that was able to
reproduce writing on an
electrically conductive
surface.
 THE
PANTELEGRAPH
 Invented by an Italian
physicist,, Giovanni
Caselli
 Also called the “universal
pantelegraph”
 An early precursor to the
fax machine for sending
images over telegraph
lines.
 Commonly used to verify
signatures used in
banking transactions.
 THE
TYPE WRITER
 Invented by Cristopher
Latham Sholes of
Milwaukee
 The Sholes and Glidden
typed only capital letters and
introduced the QWERTY
keyboard.
 At first, buying type writer
seemed impractical, until
technical modifications took
place, and the first
successful commercial
product was created.
 THE TELEPHONE
 Invented by Alexander
Graham Bell
 This device allowed people
to communicate with other
people living in a longer
distance.
 This made the
communication easier
between business men
during the Industrial
Revolution
 THE
PHONOGRAPH
 Invented by Thomas
Edison
 Edison figured out a way
to record sound on
tinfoil-coated cylinders.
When Edison spoke into
the mouthpiece, the
sound vibrations of his
voice would be indented
onto the cylinder by the
recording needle.
 THE RADIO
 Invented by an Italian
named Gugliemo Marconi
 He called it “the wireless
telegraph”
 Work by changing sounds
into waves, which then
travel through air, space,
and solid objects, and then
a radio receiver changes
them back into the sounds,
words, and music we hear.
 CRAYONS
 Invented by Binny and Smith
 They had taken over their
father’s chemical company, and
the two men began developing
school products.
 Slate pencils and dustless
chalks are some of their
innovations
 Been working with paraffin to
create a wax crayon, and in
1903 the product was
introduced under the name
“Crayola”.
 THE
WALKIE TALKIE
 Invented by Donald Hings
 Created the device so that
they could be use in
Canadian military
 Unlike anormal radio,
walkie talkie is two-way
(send and receive)
 Hing called them a
“packset” before they were
nicknamed “walkie talkie”
CELL PHONES
 Invented by Martin Cooper
 Motorola DynaTAC- the
first cellphone.
 It was not a small device- -
9 inches longand weighed
2.5 pounds.
 Cooper decided to make on
of the first cellular
telephone calls to a
professional rival, Joel
Engel, at Bell Labs.
 EMAIL
 Invented by Ray Tomlinson
 An important program that
people use to communicate
through computers.
 Emails works by the sender
composing the message using
the email client. When the user
sends the message, the email
text and attachments are
uploaded to the SMTP (Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol) server
as outgoing mail.
 SUMMARY

In Industrial Age, machine tools were developed,

manufacturing of books via the printing press
happened, and the power of steam was used.