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The Battery
Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
What does a battery mean to communication? It is really hard to say specifically but when you look at technology today and the medians we communicate through i.e. cellular devices, laptops, tablets that all run off of battery it is easy to see the true significant of the battery. Although not thought of much or maybe ever batteries are truly important to the way we communicate today. (http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Volta) -
Electric Light bulb
Humphrey Davy invents the first electric light; it was the first arc lamp. “Davy connected two wires to a battery and attached a charcoal strip between the other ends of the wires” This invention makes home life easier for people with the money to buy it. It also makes the communication of the day mostly reading based a simpler task then and of course now with LED screens on our technology, light has came a long way.
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First Photogragh
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.(pictured above)
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, If that is true this picture has to be worth billions if not trillions of words. What would media be today without photo and video. We are able to capture life moments in millisec
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Steam Locomotion
George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive. Travel over long distances was revolutionized. Massive amounts of goods could now be transported across land easily, Not only goods but Ideas and cultures were transported too. "They were liberating - increasing mobility and speed across the continent... The railroads played an important role in developing new concepts of management."(http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1801-1900/the-iron-horse/what-was-the-impact-of-the-railroads.php) -
Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe's presidential message of December 2nd changed American foreign policy. His words, which were later known as the Monroe Doctrine, announced the “United States' prevention of further European colonization”, this cut off involvement in European politics and the stopped Europe's influence on our government stabilizing America as a Nation. Monroe changed communication between whole nations basically saying we are doing our own thing no need for outside input making us a isolated society -
Train Passanger Service
In 1830, England’s Liverpool and Manchester Railway became the first to offer regular, timetabled passenger services.
This event is important because it brought change to transportation; it ensured a person a more predicable timetable for when they would reach their next destination. Later this would be of paramount importance to how we communicate times. scheduled trains caused America to Syncranize their time across the US using daylight saving times.
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Morse Code
Samuel Morse developed a code (bearing his name) that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines(1830sih)
Morse Code is the first nearly instant communication over long distance prior to the Telegraph we relied on pigeons, Ravens or horseback to get a written communication from point A to point B -
Commucation through Telegragh
William Cooke (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), patented the first commercial electrical telegraph. Their most important invention, an electric telegraph using only one magnetic needle instead of several, was recognized by patent in 1845. This just shows communication is evolving every day even now. We get better at it everyday.
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First Telegragh message
In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland “What hath God wrought!”
The Day Morse completed the Telegraph set up and functioning is the day communication changed very dramatically. Before this invention, commutation was done all by letter. It made communication nearly instant http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph -
1850 Comprimise
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, this was to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
This was Huge day in American History even though it would be 11 years until President Lincoln would even be elected it started an important communication between an organization US, Gov and its publics. http://www.ushistory
