History of Communication

1. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the phonograph, thought it would be useful as a

Alexander Graham Bell also contributed to the new technological innovations of this time by inventing the telephone. It quickly replaced the telegraph due to the immediate response one would receive while using it. Henry Ford aided in this

Throughout history sound has been used to help convey a story. As early as the 1900’s, without today’s technology, movies would often be accompanied by a soundtrack played on a piano or record players. In 1927 The Jazz singer was released, a warner bros movie that featured music and dialog on the actual filmstrip. This film is

The Greece was the first people to use the alphabet. It was maked after the dark Ages.They had 24 letters They used A,B,E and O from our alphabet. Then we made up the rest of the alphabet. But the idea is still there. Now everyone knows the alphabet.

Silent films first appeared around the 1890s in America. 1 They are films that were without synchronised sound and especially no spoken dialogue. Music was recognised as an important part of film/moving images from the beginning, as it contributed to the atmosphere of the films and allowed the audience to understand and feel the emotions being portrayed. 2 When music was first being combined with moving image pianos, organs and phonographs were the first instruments used to provide the music, and as the popularity of film grew over the years, some of the larger theatres began using orchestras to accompany the film. 3

After a couple of “failed” attempts of making a device that could be used for mass sharing of music in the late 1800s, an immigrant from Germany had finally come up with an idea that would change everything. Chichester Bell (Alexander Graham Bell's cousin) and Thomas Edison’s idea to record sounds on round cylinders was a good idea except for the sound quality and general effort that was required to make and replicate sound. The Phonograph was one of the earliest attempts at recording devices. Thomas A. Edison wanted to create this device in order to assist with business interactions. He originally used foil to record sounds, but this wasn't the best medium. You could only play sounds once and the quality wasn’t the greatest. This is when wax cylinders came into play. It was eventually decided that the wax cylinder wasn't strong enough to record something permanently. Next followed the graphophone. This invention by Bell fixed the replay problem, but mass production of music would’ve been impossible because of the sheer amount of work involved in recording each cylinder separately (Bells).

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Sound films were new and exciting and becoming very popular. Very many people were fascinated by this new technology… creating “talking pictures” was a really big deal. Another positive contribution was the pioneer disc system. This wasn’t talked about very much but it was certainly a big part of sound films. Instead of having an orchestra add sound to the films, a record was used and it was a lot easier. Two negative contributions would be sound films (yes, it was a good and bad thing) and the noises of the cameras. The reason sound films could also be a negative is because of the controversy they caused. Many people disagreed with replacing silent stages with sound proof stages and spending all that money because they didn’t know if the sound films were just a fad. Letters poured in from citizens asking them to stop production because they were used to silent films and they weren’t really sure how to feel about these new films with sound. The other negative contribution is the loud noises of the cameras. Noisy cameras had to be stored in huge insulated sound booths with sound proof covers to avoid picking up camera noise on the soundtrack. Plus, It was hard to record live dialogue because hidden microphones would impede the movement of

They utilized the emergence of innovations such as cinemascope, 3-D, stereophonic sound and many others to produce these films.

In 1927 new technology emerged in sound, people started going back to the theatres to watch films,

The first film that showed early signs of a rise in the quality of technology was the Western “The Great Train Robbery.” When this film first came out the audience were so amazed at the fact that they could watch something on a TV or at the cinema. Although this film was very good for the 1900s it still lacked some key features that make films much easier to understand such as dialogue, sound and camera shots. The one feature of a film that developed the quickest over the period of time was sound. Sound was introduced in October 1927 in the film “The Jazz singer”, which had three song numbers and a few lines of spoken dialogue. Apart from these few songs and words, the rest of the movie was silent, but the audience still thought that it was amazing that words had been spoken in the film, they used to call it “the movie that talked”.

He knew that if you could represent the binary 0 and 1 with dark and light, then a device could be produced that is able to read sounds or any other information without wearing it out and if he could make the binary compact enough he could store a bunch on a small piece of film. Bettelle let him pursue his project and in 1970, after years of work, he succeeded in inventing the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system, the CD. A CD is a simple round piece of plastic about 4/100ths of an inch thick, and 12 centimeters in diameter used for electronic recording, storing, and playback.

The introduction of sound films in the late 1920’s was a divisive issue among those involved and interested in the emerging motion picture industry. Even though it wasn’t the sudden breakthrough it is often perceived to be, the addition of sound and voice to mainstream cinema revolutionized movie making and led to conflicting viewpoints as to whether or not this innovation was a positive progression for film as an art and as an industry.

phonograph in 1877, people have felt the need to create and record music. People have different

Since the beginning of time, people have always been looking for means of communication, but a way to communicate in a fast and easy way. In earlier times, Egyptians carved on rocks, leaving records for the next civilization. The Incans of South America knotted several colored pieces of string in a specific pattern and had a messenger run to the next village to deliver it. Many wrote messages on paper to be delivered by a messenger and some simply sent a messenger to deliver the message orally. Of course, there were many problems with these means of communication. If one just sent a messenger, it was easy for the messenger to lose communication in the traveling process, or one could misplace a written message. And of course these messages