Hot and Cold

Communication Timeline True Temperatures Estimated

Communication Time-line 3500 BC - to 2900 BC

alphabetcuneiform writing hieroglyphic writing

Very Cold: Not user friendly at all! Try to dip into this material like a ‘hot bath’!

100BC-1050AD 100: First bound books; 105: Tsai Lun (China) invents

paper as we know it; First wooden printing presses

(China): Symbols carved on a wooden

block Newspapers appear in

Europe Not much warmth here

however: Information rich but you must work hard to gain access information. This material warming up a tad for bathers to dip into.

1450-1867 1450: Johannes Gutenberg and his printing

press (metal movable type); 1714: Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first

patent for a typewriter; 1814: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the

first photographic image; 1831: Joseph Henry invents the first electric

telegraph; 1843: Samuel Morse invents the first long

distance electric telegraph line.Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine.

1867: American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.

Things are warming as printing is getting easier for everyone to take advantage of.

1877- 1904 1877: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph:

a wax cylinder as recording medium; 1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone:

recordings that could be used over and over again;

1889: Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone exchange;

1894: Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy;

1902: Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean;

1904: Comic Books were being published in earnest.

Warming or cooling trend? Cooling down, indeed!

1877- 19041877- 1904

1905-1927 Lee Deforest: Creates the electronic amplifying

tube or triode. Electronic signals can be amplified-everything improves;

1910: Edison and the ‘Talkies’: Movies make noise;

1923: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube), first television camera.

1925: John Logie Baird: the first experimental television signal.

1927: NBC starts two radio networksCBS founded. "The Jazz Singer" the first successful talking motion picture by Warner Brothers. And the Deep Chill begins!

Lee Deforest: Creates the electronic amplifying tube or triode. Electronic signals can be amplified-everything improves;

1910: Edison and the ‘Talkies’: Movies make noise;

1923: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube), first television camera.

1925: John Logie Baird: the first experimental television signal.

1927: NBC starts two radio networksCBS founded. "The Jazz Singer" the first successful talking motion picture by Warner Brothers. And the Deep Chill begins!

Lee Deforest: Creates the electronic amplifying tube or triode. Electronic signals can be amplified-everything improves;

1910: Edison and the ‘Talkies’: Movies make noise;

1923: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube), first television camera.

1925: John Logie Baird: the first experimental television signal.

1927: NBC starts two radio networksCBS founded. "The Jazz Singer" the first successful talking motion picture by Warner Brothers. And the Deep Chill begins!

1930-1949 1930: "Golden Age" of radio begins;

First television broadcasts in the US; 1934: Joseph Begun creates the first tape recorder

for broadcasting (first magnetic recording); 1938: Television broadcasts can be taped and edited

(no longer only live); 1944: Computers (e.g.Harvard's Mark I) go into

public service (government owned): On with the age of Information Science);

1948: 33rpm vinyl recordings and the Transistor are born;

1949 TV is born.

Burrr….things are icing over!

1951-1979

1951: Computers are first sold commercially; 1958: Xerox machine Integrated Circuit

invented; 1966: Xerox: First successful fax machine; 1969: ARPANET - the first Internet started (McLuhan WAS still around then??!!??); 1971: Floppy disc/microprocessor invented; 1972: HBO and first cable tv service; 1976: Apple 1; 1979: First cellular phone service (Japan).

With the wind-chill factor things are pretty cold!

1980-1994 1980: Sony Walkman is created; 1981: IBM PC first sold; first laptops sold to public

all with a Computer mouse; 1983: Time magazines names the computer as

"Man of the Year.“ First cellular phone network is now in the US;

1984: Apple Macintosh released.IBM PC AT released (got my first PC this year);

1985: Cell phones are common place and CD-ROMs are going into new computers (darn—bought too soon).

The American government releases control of internet : WWW is born: Communication at light-speed.

We’re now in the deep freeze

Hot or Cold?These slides show a progression of

communication methods for mankind over the millennium.

Most who are reading this know the history well since 1994, when this history account ends. Surely, things have gotten faster, better from the perspective of this writer. In the final analysis, cold and hot are relative terms…what one finds cold, well, another does NOT!

Who predicted what?

As slide 8 points out, the internet was born, alive and kicking, when

McLuhan WAS still around, alive and kicking. Much of what he has written, in his style, was likely common knowledge to many who worked and operated with certain sectors of the American Government in HIS day!

It is important to give credit where and when it is due…and important not to give it when it is not!

Hot and cold is so relative!