use for communications? The telegraph was the answer‚ made by Samuel F. B. Morse. An invention that could transmit an electric pulse across a cable to send messages. This invention was looked poorly upon at the beginning of its time. But one man had the guts to invest in Morse’s telegraph‚ and he soon became one of the reasons the telegraph was created. The telegraph caused the telephone to be invented. Morse had wanted to be able to “talk across continents.” The telegraph was not a small device such
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The Importance of the Telegraph The telegraph is an electromagnet connected to a battery via a switch. When the switch is down‚ the current flows from the battery through the key‚ down the wire‚ and into the sounder at the other end of the line. By itself‚ the telegraph could express only two states‚ on or off. This limitation was eliminated by the fact that it was the duration of the connection that determined the dot and dash from each other being short and long‚ respectively. From these combinations
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media and technology and how it influences humans. Marshall McLuhan has introduced different theories to present his beliefs and philosophies on the social media and other technologies. Marshall McLuhan was born in Alberta Canada‚ in the year of 1911. McLuhan attended the University of Manitoba to receive his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in English. A University Gold Medal in Arts and Sciences was also rewarded to him. McLuhan continued his education at Cambridge University to receive
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My topic is the Telegraph. The general idea of the telegraph is to have long distance communication. The telegraph is important because people could actually talk to their family or friends from out of state. It benefited people who had family out of state or live in a different country. They appreciated it because they could talk to there family from there home. Before the people had to go visit their family member just to talk to them if their family member lived in a different country‚ they might
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Marshall McLuhan explains that though the medium is responsible for delivering the message to the audience‚ he argues that the medium acquires equal or more value than the message itself. Furthermore‚ the medium‚ through which the message of content is presented‚ holds accountability to the way the message is perceived. McLuhan makes it clear that the ‘message’ of his article is that man fails to notice that technologies (mediums) will have effects on culture and society. I agree with McLuhan that the
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Izzahar Ramli IIUM Development of the Telegraph The telegraph is defined as any system that allows the transmission of encoded information by signal across a distance. The meaning of "telegraph" comes from Greek words: tele = far and graphein = write. While telegraph systems have used a variety of signaling methods and devices‚ the term is most often applied to the electrical telegraph development in the 19th century (Rubin‚ 2011). It is hard for us who live in the 21st century to appreciate
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“The medium is the message” McLuhan defines the medium as any extension of our body‚ senses or mind. Therefore‚ any instrument of change is a medium. The resulting change McLuhan refers to is often subtle and it is this change that is the message (McLuhan‚ 1994). At first glance‚ McLuhan’s
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1832‚ Samuel Morse returned to the United States after completing his studies from Europe. Morse formulated the idea of a single-wire electric telegraph. He developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet. The codes helped in the transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. The electric telegraph was based on the principle of sending electric current through a wire. A sender will send the signal in the form of an electric current. The receiver
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Introduction The 19th century developments of firstly the telegraph‚ and later the telephone‚ opened a gateway to a new‚ closer‚ more interdependent world. For a country as large as the United States‚ with a population now scattered from east to west‚ the implications were tremendous. The infamous tyranny of time and distance had been conquered. Widespread acceptance and appreciation‚ however‚ were not immediate. Both inventions met with initial scepticism‚ ridicule‚ and even elements of fear.
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To critically assess the impact of‚ what Marshall McLuhan refers to as‚ ‘electronic cultures’ on contemporary social life‚ it is necessary to first understand what McLuhan means by‚ ‘electronic cultures’. McLuhan was a Canadian‚ professor of English who extensively researched and wrote about the impact of media on society and man. McLuhan believed that to determine the impact of communication on social change the medium required analysis‚ not the content. He coined the phrase ‘the medium is the
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