Introduction to Communication

Introduction to Communication

The Fourth Revolution:

* PHONOGRAPH

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* Edison Invents the Phonograph Thomas Edison created many inventions, but his favorite was the phonograph. While working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone, Edison figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders. In 1877, he created a machine with two needles: one for recording and one for playback. When Edison spoke into the mouthpiece, the sound vibrations of his voice would be indented onto the cylinder by the recording needle

* Phonograph changed the way we listen to music and the way performers create it. They’ve even pushed new genres of music into existence. It affects the way people look and think about music. Before then music had to live or right in front of you. If it weren't for this Edison's simple little machine we wouldn’t have radios or cd players.

* AUDIOTAPE

* An audio tape recorder, tape deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage

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* Audiotapes are very helpful in our modern society because they can be used in various ways

* NICKELODEONS

* An early motion-picture theater where a film or a variety show could be seen, usually for the admission price of a nickel.

* The name "Nickelodeon" was first used in 1888 by Austin's Nickelodeon, a dime museum located in Boston, Massachusetts. However, Harry Davis and John P. Harris, who opened their small storefront theatre with that name on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1905, popularized the term. They called it the Nickelodeon, joining "nickel" with the Greek word for an enclosed theater adopted by the 18th-century Odéon in Paris. Although it was not the first theater to show films, in 1919 a news article stated that it was the first theater in the world...