CMN 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wireless Telegraphy, Photochemistry, Vanderbilt Family
Document Summary
Photography timeline, photographic technology: the camera and photochemistry, reproduction and preservation: photography, the industrial age and the uses of photography by capitalism; photography: fine art to realism; photography and painting; photojournalism; propaganda. Telegraph dominated by the first great industrial monopoly - western union - the first communication empire, prototype of many industrial empires to follow. Telegraph and railway provided the setting in which techniques for management of complex enterprises were first worked out. One of the first great patent wars between jay gould and the vanderbilts for control of the edison patents for the quadrupled telegraph. Telegraph was the first product - and foundation - of the electrical goods industry. The first of the science-and-engineering-based industries and the first engineering technology. New ways of communication and technology (?) Brought about changes in the nature of language and nature of awareness. Began as a toy (much like the computer) for playing long-distance chess.
