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Essay on Communication in History
The history of communication dates back to the earliest signs of life. Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange, to full conversations and mass communication. On a much shorter scale, there have been major developments in the field telecommunication.The root of communication by artificial means, i.e. not using biologically immediate means like vocalization (or speech when occurring between humans), is general believed to be the art of writing that most probably goes back to the more ancient arts of drawing and painting. Nowadays, the use of technology to aid and enhance distance communications, telecommunications in short, is usually taken to represent communication technology in general.
The communication technology has evolved over the past 150 years to the point where many news gathering organizations now have the ability to deliver to large audiences, in an instant, the sights and sounds of news events from virtually anywhere in the worldThe Birth of Electric Communication Instant communication over great distances was somewhat limited before the telegraph was invented. Beating a drum or blowing a horn may have served well to send messages from one point to another in an instant but could travel only as far as the sound waves carried. Lighthouses were also useful for point-to-point communication, but again limited, because their reach was only as far as the eye could see.
Samuel F. B. Morse was among the first to realize that an electromagnet could be used to transmit messages over a considerable distance. By interrupting the flow of current passing through an electromagnet, a sequence of impulses could be generated and transmitted from one location to another.The electrical impulses were received as a series of dots and dashes that could be translated into words and other symbols.” (Winston, 1998) In 1844 Morse showed the world that his electromagnetic telegraph could send a message from Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., a distance of about fifty miles. Earlier in the month, Morse had demonstrated the telegraph's utility as a disseminator of news.....
