From the battery to the microchip / train -> pony express -> telegraph -> telephone -> civil band -> radio -> mechanical tv -> television -> magnetic recording / video tape + CD + DVD -> cable <-> satellite
Assignment
• Choose a 21st century technology and write a brief ( max 2 pages) statement on which technologies from previous decades influenced its creation. How could it influence new technologies we have not heard of in the future?
Links
otr.com
www.mztv.com
Television: evolution
Radio Days – Woody Allen / Original recording of “War of the worlds” by Orson Welles / Felix the Cat / Early days of TV / Lucy / Norway to turn off FM in 2017