EVOLUTION OF MEDIA: INDUSTRIAL AGE LESSON 6

The presentation talks about the evolution of media during the industrial age (1700s to 1930s).

1. INDUSTRIAL AGE (1700s-1930s) Media and Information Literacy

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1) Examine the technology or resources available during the prehistoric age, the industrial age, the electronic age, and the new or digital age. 2) Identify the devices used by people to communicate with each other, store information, and broadcast information across the different ages.

3. 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).

4. Printing Press for mass production

5. Printing press is a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets, and newspapers. Created in China, the printing press revolutionized society there before being further developed in Europe in the 15 th Century by Johannes Gutenberg and his invention of the Gutenberg press. https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press

6. Newspaper – London Gazette (1640)

7. -The London Gazette’s original name was Oxford Gazette. When King Charles II moved his court back to London after a few months, it was changed to its current title. -For 350 years, the London Gazette contained government news, regulatory and legal information, trade and business. It also brought the official news of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II.

8. Typewriter

9. (1867) The first model and practical writer was constructed by an American inventor named Christopher Latham Sholes. He was inspired by the article he read in the journal Scientific American describing a new invented British machine. (1874) The first typewriters were placed on the market and the machine was soon renamed the Remington . (Mark Twain) The first author to submit a typewritten book manuscript.

10. Motion picture photography/projection

11. Motion-picture photography is based on the phenomenon that the human brain will perceive an illusion of continuous movement from a succession of still images exposed at a rate above 15 frames per second.

12. (1889-1890) Thomas Alva Edison showed his first motion picture, Monkeyshines, which was produced with a kinetograph, an early motion picture camera that was developed by his lab assistant William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. (Teachers College Columbia University) (1895) Auguste and Louis Lumière introduced the Cinématographe , a projector that could show 16 frames per second. Poster by Henri Brispot , 1896

13. ,   Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

14. Motion picture with sound (sound film)

15. SOUND FILM – sound technologically coupled to image, opposed to a silent film. (April 1923, New York City) First commercial screening of movies with fully synchronized sound. (October 1927) The Jazz Singer , the first feature-length movie originally presented as a talkie.

16. Telegraph (1830s-1860s)

17. Telegraph- sending electric signals across wires - originated in 1700s ( a rough system was used in France in 1798) (1832) New York University professor Samuel Morse (version of telegraph) (1835) He developed the Morse Code, a set of sounds that corresponded to particular letters of the alphabet. (1838) He presented his telegraph to the Congress.

18. PUNCH CARD -also known as Hollerith cards or IBM cards -an early method of storing information