CCS 200 Lecture 5: ccs 2:13

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Cinema and Cultural Studies
• Course: CCS 200
• Professor: Gaboury

Document Summary

Transition to new manufacturing practices beginning in the mid-18th century. Mechanization of tasks previously done by hand. Aided by new energy sources (steam power, gas lighting) Radically transforms labor, capitalism, family, and transportation (rise of the factory system) Aid to (cid:862)kick off(cid:863) the industrial revolution. Allowed yarn to be woven much faster, as was key to industrializing the textile industry in the 19th century. Telegraphy marks the moment that communication becomes decoupled from the movement of bodies in space. Telegraphy allows info to move independent of the means of transportation for the first time. A system of conveying info by means of visual signs, aka an (cid:862)optical telegraph(cid:863) Line of sight is critical for system to work. Chappe devised an optical telegraph system and covered france with a network of 556 stations stretching 3000 mi (during french revolution) Able to convey simple messages in a matter of minutes, instead of days. Optical telegraphy systems used throughout 19th cent.