Eula Biss's 'Time And Distance Overcome'

The telephone completely changed how we communicate. Alexander Bell was a professor at Boston University when he built a device that allowed people to see speech in the form of sound-wave vibrations. This made Mr. Bell believe that somehow he could make sound waves turn into an electrical current and back into sound waves. After lots of studying electricity and conducting lots

In the article “We’ll go forward from this moment” written by Leonard Pitts Jr. portrays the story of 9/11 and how he feels after. The article includes Pitts speaking his mind, sending a message back to others telling them how we feel.

Article “OMG! We've been here B4!” by Clive Thompson is a reflection of what the effects the telephone has on everyday communication as well as the development of the telephone over the years. Thompson however explains that the early days of the telephone weren't seen as a helpful tool for social interaction, but an abate to conversation. When the cell phone first emerged on scene, it was believed that people choose to communicate face-to-face less and call instead. Clive Thompson explores the thought that texting may make people shield their emotions, limit conversations to only the phone, and erode intimacy. Although the telephone had various opinions, the cell phone did not destroy traditional etiquette but altered the way we communicate with one another.

THESIS: In today’s world, the phone often provides a primary source of access to both social support and necessary data for school and extracurricular activities,” Dodgen-Magee says. “To simply yank it away would be like taking away the support of a bridge with nothing in its place.”

Today, phones play a major role in individuals. In “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds,” Nicholas Carr uses straightforward diction, studies, and figurative language such as, personification to reveal that individuals are powerless without their phones. Throughout the reading he explained how the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens.

Telephone popularity saw an increase in the early 1900's. The telephone began to appear all over the place. The telephone began to be looked upon as a necessity, "By this time the telephone was settling into national consciousness as a fixed and permanent part of American life."2 The telephone allowed people to interact with other types of individuals, and this ability intrigued the American public. The telephone made it possible for contact to take place with people who normally can not because of being apart by large distances. People want to communicate quickly with others, and the telephone makes this happen. By this time the telephone was not a luxury good, but necessary for survival. Cities especially, saw the telephone as an essential part of society; "Literally telephone service is a life-and-death matter to the citizens of every urban community in America."3 Although the telephone was popular in cities, it was surprisingly popular in the rural Midwest. The telephone created a need to know what took place in the world. The Midwest was not as densely populated and the telephone developed an excellent way to communicate the news of the day amongst surrounding communities. Before, one would have to rely on the news spreading via word

The telephone is known for downplaying the context of conversation and the loss of personal touch, just like modern day cellular phones have the ability to text, which is an even more extreme example of a lack of personality. Their relationship had already been lacking a physical disconnect, but the lack of closeness on the telephone also demonstrated a widening emotional gap. The emotional gap is representative of the loss of identity which is caused by the strain that was put on their generation after WWI. The telephone was also a way to spread information faster than if one would have to travel by foot or write their news through a letter. For a brief time period Adam worked as one of the gossip writers for the paper. Lord Balcairn was another one of the gossip writers and he said, “I've just telephoned my story through” (61). The fact that they call their stories in as soon as they take place shows how they are too caught up in the idea of technology. This

In Callie Vee’s town of Fentress the town just got their first telephone line ever. Other cities and towns in the United States already have seen telephone lines before. There was a huge ceremony for the first time it was used and everyone was amazed by it. In the chapter, it references what communication was like twenty years later when it took three days for the message to be sent, ten years later when it took half a day by train, and

I think that the crucifix-like telephone poles was quite intentional. The society was largely based on the religious views of Christianity and perhaps this draws a parallel between the two, creating a contrast between the good of the church and the evil of human nature.

The abuses of modern technology have been highlighted in posters from Germany and Britain, as the conversation on telephones was not entirely secure. The dangers of an unguarded conversation on telephone has been pointed out in ‘Carless talks Costs lives’ posters by Fougasse, where a man having a telephone conversation in a red telephone box (figure.3.12) is overheard by multiple caricature heads of Hitler placed above and on both sides of the box. ‘The torpedo is listening careless words may cost both lives and ships’ poster (figure.3.106) shows an eared torpedo, with swastika marks all over, listening at telephone box with sailor inside. The destructions of an unguarded conversation was measured colossal. Another poster (figure.3.102)

The voices heard around the world was contributed to the invention of the telephone in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. Bell was superlative with ideas and inventions he desired to accomplish. Alexander Bell was credited with numerous patents and inventions. What Bell aspired to do was helping the hearing impaired. This is mainly due to his father’s contributions in the hearing impaired and his own mother becoming near deaf when he was young. Later own in Bell’s life, he got married and his wife was also deaf. He also, made a profound impact on the medical field with innovative inventions. He is known for the telephone invention, which is credited with success of today’s communication. Alexander Graham Bell’s brilliant inventions were beneficial

Early in 1874 Bell met Thomas A. Watson, a young machinist at a Boston electrical shop. Watson became Bell’s indispensable assistant, bringing to Bell’s experiments the crucial ingredient that had been lacking, his technical expertise in electrical engineering. Together the two men spent endless hours experimenting (Paschoff 43,44). Although Bell formed the basic concept of the telephone using a varying but unbroken electric current to transmit the varying sound waves of human speech, in the summer of 1874, Hubbard insisted that the young inventor focus his efforts on the harmonic telegraph instead. Bell wanted to continue his work on the telephone but he complied. When he patented one of his telegraph designs in February 1875, he found that Elisha Gray had patented a multiple telegraph two days earlier. Greatly discouraged, Bell consulted in Washington with the elderly Joseph Henry, who urged Bell to pursue his “germ of a great invention” speech transmission (Grosvenor and Wesson 55).

Following the time when the mid 1980s, phones have been rapidly moving their route into our commonplace lives, particularly with the presentation of cam telephones in the early part of the new thousand years. As cells develop they have more of an effect on our commonplace lives and I need to exactly how much they are affecting. Similarly as with new engineering in whatever other structure, phones have changed enormously over their generally short life compasses. As these progressions happen, so does the populaces like and here and there loathe for these new advanced cells. One of the real issues happening with cell telephones in present day times is that individuals use them at wrong times, for example, when they are looking at of a market. Despite the fact that there are a couple negative perspectives about phones, my exploration and my paper are going to mostly the profits of Pdas in the United States of America. My exploration concentrates on a few key regions in wireless correspondence, for example, the advancement of Pdas, content informing, Pdas and other PDA applications and in addition my own particular exploration including a overview that I dispersed to some of my colleagues.

The telegraph did wonders to speed up process of communication; however, it was still not ideal for everyday interaction between families and neighbors. The telegraph Morse invented was a single telegraph, sending one message at a time, so Alexander Graham Bell tried to create a multiple telegraph, sending more than one message over the same wire. At the same time, Bell and Thomas Watson, an electrician, were working on another idea in secret – the telephone. On June 2, 1875, Alexander Graham Bell discovered he could hear a sound over an electric wire, the sound of a twanging clock spring. On March 10, 1876, Bell explained in his notebook entry that his experiment was finally successful. That day he said the famous first words spoken into a telephone, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” Finally solving the problems of the telegraph, Bell invented the telephone. The telegraph system was in place for about thirty years already, taking the telephone quite

We are living in an electronic age. The whole world is taking a new turn with every fraction of time. It has given birth to globalization. The world has been contracted and concise at a tip. There are a lot of new means of communication which have made our life so simple and easy going. Mobile phone be the most used present-day phenomenon in this fast-growing time. Mobile phone is a revolutionary step in the field of tele-communication. We had the days when the telephones only served the purpose of communication through sound. Mobile phone has completely changed the concept of the telephoning. Now a phone is not only a mere phone but it is a lot. The mobile phone has changed how people’s minds work.