Bible - Gutenberg's Earliest and Most Famous Creation
Bible - Gutenberg's Earliest and Most Famous Creation
Communication began as drawing on walls of caves, carving of the barks of trees, papyrus and
parchment. Illustrated man’s desire to interact, link up and build connections.
- Herd of deer
Writing is the record of spoken language.
Invention of Writing
First glyphs – Kish Tablet found in Mesopotamia
The Narmer Palette – triumph of King Narmer of upper Egypt
Papyrus – cyperus plant, a wetland sedge
Papyrus to Paper – Christians invented codex
Johann Gutenberg – movable typing machine
Bible – Gutenberg’s earliest and most famous creation
Doctrina Christiana – first printed book in Philippines
First Newspaper – English
Merchants – first patronized newspaper
Denis McQuail – newspaper is more significant than book
La Esperanza – first daily newspaper published in the country
FROM STATIC TO MOVING IMAGES
George Eastman – invented Kodak
Thomas Edison and his assistant William Dickson – turned the use of photographic film into material
that can be moved in front of a lens at a constant speed.
Kinetoscope - early motion picture exhibition device.
Louis and Auguste Lumiere – developed film projectors
Vitascope – early film projector by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat
RADIO WAVES
Theory by James Maxwell
Proven by Heinrich Hertz
Edouard Branly - invented coherer, first real detector of radio waves
John Fleming – invented first diode tube
American Lee de Forest - invented triode vacuum tube
Guglielmo Marconi – discovered the commercial and military viability of sending radio signals
Tesla won but eventually died after winning
Reginald Fessenden – first radio broadcast
Paul Nipkow – inventor of rotating disk
ABS CBN – Alto Broadcasting System Chronicle Broadcasting Network
7 common forms of media: books;newspaper;magazine;sound-recording;radio;television;film