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RESEARCH QUESTION

How did telecommunications advance from the end of the 1800’s to the end of the 1900’s ?
THESIS
Telecommunications have revolutionized business and communication between people.
Since the beginning of time communication has always been a crucial part in our societies for development. Without communication there was no or little development, people did not know what was out there, and what was available. It is communication that has developed our large and very intricate societies with different institutions communicating for the welfare of our people. People have always strived for contact with other people. Man wants to know his surroundings and with the arrival of telecommunications …show more content…

Certain battles were lost due to the rejection of this technology and the communication failed. It was not until after the war that the telephone was put in use privately. But the astounding thing is that the means of communication reached almost anybody, anywhere, if only they wished to pick up. This helped business a lot, and it allowed companies to grow, along with social structures within a society.
Then came radio, which allowed people to reach the masses. Whether or not it was propaganda, a weather warning or an advertisement it still reached millions of people, and this had a profound effect on the commercial sector. It also allowed society to organize itself for war or other national events, because these were issued on the radio, this was the most effective means to reach the population of a country, therefore it became a very powerful political and economical tool.
Then with the arrival of satellites, Television arrived where one could both view and hear. This is in fact one of, if not the most important medium we have today. People with a TV can stay up to date with events that happen in every part of the world, sometimes even as they are happening, that is in ‘real time’. The TV is the leading mass medium but it cannot stimulate our need to be interactive with the medium,

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