Industrial Age (1700s - 1930s) Flashcards
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press).
Industrial Age (1700s - 1930s)
Alexander Graham Bell’s Large Box _______, 1876. 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 what?
Telephone (1876)
What was the first words ever spoken on the telephone?
Mr. Watson — Come here — i want to see you.
The first ______ 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.
Typewriter (1800)
__________________ 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. ___________________ claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper
Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640)
A __________ 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 _________ was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses.
Printing press for mass production (19th century)
The history of film technology traces the development of film technology from the initial development of “moving pictures” at the end of 19th century to the present time. Motion pictures were initially exhibited as a fairground novelty and developed into one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment in the 20th century. Major developments in motion picture technology have included the adoption of synchronized motion picture sound, color motion picture film, and the adoption of digital film technologies to replace physical film stock at both ends of the production chain by digital image sensors and projectors.
Motion Pictures Photography/Projection (1890)
Eadward Muybridge
In 1878 and 1879 Muybridge shot photographic sequences of animals in motion at the Palo Alto race track in California. In 1881 he published a selection of the results in a hand-made folio book of circa 15 copies entitled “The Attitudes of Animals in Motion”.
Chronophotography
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commercial screening of short motion pictures using the technology, which took place in 1923.
Commercial Motion Pictures w/ sound (1913)
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the ______ revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
Telegraph
The standard _______, 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, ______ were adopted for use in the 1890 census.
Punch Cards
