1.5 Evolution of Media

Upon receiving the news, he was unable to return home in time for her funeral, causing him immense grief and a desire to create a faster way to communicate long distances, which ultimately led to his development of the telegraph. 

• Alessandro Volta

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• Thomas Edison

His mother and wife were both deaf, which influenced his work with the deaf. 

• Alessandro Volta

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• Thomas Edison

His work with the deaf and his study of sound transmission also influenced his invention. 

• Alessandro Volta

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• Thomas Edison

In his 84 years, he acquired an astounding 1,093 patents.

• Alessandro Volta

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• Thomas Edison

He was inspired by the practice of railroad conductors punching holes in passenger tickets to record travel details, which gave him the idea to use punched cards to store data on a machine-readable format. 

• Herman Hollerith

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• Thomas Edison

American inventor Herman Hollerith built an electro-mechanical tabulator to analyze statistical information stored on punched cards for the U.S. Census of 1890.

• Philippine Census

• Military Census

• U.S. Census

• Australian Census

The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the __-line Bible

He is known for having designed and built the first known mechanized printing press in Europe. In 1455 he used it to print the Gutenberg Bible, which is one of the earliest books in the world to be printed from movable type.

What Age?

• Pre-mechanical Age

• Mechanical Age

• Electromechanical

• Electronic Age

The oldest surviving English newspaper

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