The Evolution of Media

  • 38,000 BCE

    Cave Paintings

    Cave Paintings
    are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin,dated to some 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia.
  • 8000 BCE

    Smoke Signal

    Smoke Signal
    An oldest form of long distance communication. It is a form of visual communication used over long distance. In general smoke signals are used to transmit news, signal danger, or gather people to a common area.
  • 2500 BCE

    Papyrus in Egypt

    Papyrus in Egypt
    Papyrus, is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant.
    It was also used throughout the Mediterranean region and in the Kingdom of Kush. Apart from a writing material, ancient Egyptians employed papyrus in the construction of other artifacts, such as reed boats, mats, rope, sandals, and baskets
  • 2270 BCE

    Clay Tablet

    Clay Tablet
    Clay Tablet were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these un fired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets. Other tablets, once written, were fired in hot kilns
  • 850 BCE

    Chimu telephone

    Chimu telephone
    Chimu Telephone is a unique incredible devices that is found by some archaeologist in the ruins of Chan Chan in Peru. This device is the earliest best example of technology. It is said that it is established in Peru around 850 AD
  • Period: 200 BCE to 200

    Giant Petroglyph

    The Nasca, whose culture flourished from around 200 B.C. to the middle of the seventh century A.D., made many of their etching near the city of Nazca.
    The etchings in the desert make up a sacred landscape honoring water and fertility.
  • Period: 100 BCE to 1700 BCE

    PRE HISTORIC AGE

    People discovered fire, developed paper from plants and forge equipment of weapon through stone, bronze, copper and iron.
  • Period: to

    INDUSTRIAL AGE

    The Industrial Age is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    The steam engine was used in many industrial settings, especially mining, where the first engines pumped water from deep workings. Early mills had run successfully with water power, but by using a steam engine a factory could be located anywhere, not just near water. Water power varied with the seasons, and was not available at times due to freezing, floods and dry spells.
  • Facsimile

    Facsimile
    Advances in the art of facsimile are closely related to advances in printmaking. Maps, for instance, were the focus of early explorations in making facsimiles.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    Communication became easier during the Industrial Revolution with such inventions as the telegraph in 1837.The telegraph was the first from of communication that could be sent from a great distance and was a landmark in human history. For the first time man could communicate with another from a great distance changing everything from how wars were fought to how people dated and fell in love. It’s creation, along with the steam engine, was one of the key inventions to the industrial age
  • Light Bulb

    Light Bulb
    An electric light is a device that produces visible light by the flow of electric current. It is the most common form of artificial lighting and is essential to modern society, providing interior lighting for buildings and exterior light for evening and nighttime activities. In technical usage, a replaceable component that produces light from electricity is called a lamp. http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/thomas-edison
  • Over Head Projector

    Over Head Projector
    Over Head Projector is a variant of slide projector that is used to display images to an audience.
  • Radio

    Radio
    Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
  • Period: to

    ELECTRONIC AGE

    The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables or other transmission media over long distances, and replays such signals simultaneously in audible form to its user.
  • Walkie Talkie

    Walkie Talkie
    walkie-talkies use a single radio channel, and only one radio on the channel can transmit at a time, although any number can listen. The transceiver is normally in receive mode; when the user wants to talk he presses a "push-to-talk" (PTT) button that turns off the receiver and turns on the transmitter
  • Jukebox

    Jukebox
    jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when entered in combination, are used to play a specific selection.
  • Television

    Television
    Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black-and-white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television program or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip, and advertising.
  • Main Frame Computer

    Main Frame Computer
    Main Frame Computer are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing. The term originally referred to the large cabinets called "main frames" that housed the central processing unit and main memory of early computers. Later, the term was used to distinguish high-end commercial machines from less powerful units
  • Camera

    Camera
    A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both. The images may be individual still photographs or sequences of images constituting videos or movies. The camera is a remote sensing device as it senses subjects without physical contact.
  • Period: to

    DIGITAL AGE

    People advances the use of microelectronics in the invention of personal computers,mobile devices and wearable technology, In this age the internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of social network, moreover, voice, image sound and date digitalized.
  • Mobile Phone

    Mobile Phone
    A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio. Modern mobile telephone services use a cellular network architecture, and, therefore, mobile telephones are often also called cellular telephones or cell phones. In addition to telephony, 2000s-era mobile phones support a variety of other services, such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications, business applications, gaming, and digital photography
  • Personal Computer

    Personal Computer
    A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose electronic computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. PCs are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or technician.
  • Ipod

    Ipod
    Ipod is the trade name for mp3 player by Apple. it basically plays music (video with higher storage capacity and new generation), records your voice and play radio (with some models). There are many companies producing mp3 players. The price ranges from $30 to more than $300 depending the brandname
  • Ipad

    Ipad
    is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile operating system. An iPad can shoot video, take photos, play music, and perform Internet functions such as web-browsing and emailing. Other functions – games, reference, GPS navigation, social networking, etc