6. The baby of computers
1970
1946
AND
1867 TODAY…
7. Now
C. Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel
W. Soule invented the first typewriter to be
commercially successful in 1867 in Milwaukee, The first electronic computers were developed in
Wisconsin. the mid-20th century, but modern computers take
up a fraction of the space and are much more
capable.
Through three significant inventions, Herman
Hollerith created the recording of data on a Word processing, which today is accomplished
machine readable medium which led to the through programs such as Microsoft Word and
foundation of the modern information Notepad, began in the 1970’s.
processing industry (AKA the computer).
The first 1G(first generation) network was launched
in the United States in 1983 and multimedia
In March of 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was features, such as e-mail, internet, and data transfer,
awarded a master patent for the electric became standard in the 2000’s.
telephone by the USPTO.
The first radio program broadcast, using the At the beginning of the 21st century, Satellite
synchronous rotary-spark transmitter, was Radio, or digital radio, offered for the first time
started by Reginald Fessenden in 1906. near CD-quality music beamed to your radio
through space.
Then
11. •The “wheel of life,” or the zoopraxiscope, was the first patented device
in America to show motion pictures, however it was not considered true
motion picture because of its use of a sequence of still photos taken by
12 stereoscopic cameras
•Edison, using technology similar to his phonograph, introduced the first
true American motion picture in 1889
•The motion picture error did not begin until Louis Lumiere developed the
first motion picture camera, the Cinematographe ,in 1895
•Edison, however, introduced projected film with the Kinetoscope, and
later the improved Vitascope projector
•The first motion pictures shown to an audience in a theater occurred in
1896 in New York
•John Logie Baird is credited with inventing the television in the United Kingdom
in 1926
•Original televisions used only 30 lines of resolution while modern devices can do
up to 720
•The first color TV was introduced in 1954
•1972 marked the year of the first colored film to be recorded on a disc
•1977-first VCR
•The 1990’s set off many new trends such as the use of computer animation for
feature length films, the shift from physical film stock to digital cinema
technology, and the advent of DVDs
•The Dark Knight was the first popular film to be shot partially with IMAX
technology
•Camera systems used to capture films are shifting from film to HD video
cameras
12.
13. • Previous to advancements made •The tallest building in the United
during the Gilded Age, buildings States today is the Willis Tower,
were limited to 5 stories commonly known as the Sears Tower,
which is in Chicago as well
Modern Day Skyscraper
• Inventions such as the electric
•The structure was built in 1973 and is
Gilded Age Skyscraper
elevator and the use of steel in
1,451 feet tall with 108 stories
architectural techniques allowed
•This, along with many other skyward-
for adversity, and most
reaching buildings, was built using a
importantly height to buildings in structural tube system developed by
cities overcrowded with engineer Fazlur Khan in the 1960’s
immigrants and city-dwellers •Ironically, it was the deviation from
• The 10-story, 138 foot, Home the steel frame method that had been
Insurance Building is considered used for previous tall buildings that
the first skyscraper, built from allowed for the advancement in
1884-1885 by architect William Le modern architecture
Baron Jenney •Skyscrapers contribute not only to a
• Its load-bearing structural frame more efficient economy, but also in
defining a cities power and identity,
led to “Chicago skeleton”
just as they did during the Gilded Age
construction
14. Motion picture began in the Gilded Age,
and modern techniques, such as IMAX
technology are replacing the older ,less
advanced methods just as faster media
sources are being developed.
The world is getting smaller as Architecture is also based on human’s
communication devices such as the reliance on efficiency and America’s
telephone and radio are able to reach growing population. Just as Chicago
farther distances at faster pace, similar to answered the needs of the crowded
the effects of communication devices cities in the Gilded Age, architect today
developed during the Gilded Age. Some continue to develop better means. The
advancements are practical, but there difference is the artistic element of
has always been devices invented for modern architecture. (especially
entertainment as well. skyscrapers)
Article
The article suggests that
technological innovations is “The telegraph hastened the
based on the human desire for speed at which news was
“America has in fact transformed efficiency and amusement in all disseminated. So does the
journalism from what it once aspects of their lives. This has internet. Those in the news
was, the periodical expression of been the central theme since business use the new technology
the thought of the time, the the Gilded Age, and the
at every stage of newsgathering
opportune record of the similarity between the purpose
behind advancements and distribution. A move to
questions and answers of electronic distribution—through
contemporary life, into an agency throughout the different errors
is similar, despite the varying PCs, mobile phones and e-
for collecting, condensing and readers—has started. It seems
levels to which each time period
assimilating the trivialities of the has reached. likely only to accelerate.”
entire human existence.”
