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Communication Industrial Revolution

  • Earl Stanhope- cast-iron printing press

    Earl Stanhope- cast-iron printing press
    In the year 1800, Earl Stanhope from England invented a cast-iron printing press that was capable of producing cleaner and more vivid impressions. This was an improvement from Johannes gutenburg’s printing press and continued the improvement in printing press. This helped the communication of that time because they could get a message out more clearly to people and make many quality copies. The communication between people was better because they could print and copy and read easier.
  • Joseph Nicephore Niepce

    Joseph Nicephore Niepce
    he first photographic image with acamera obscura. Prior to Niepce people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Joseph Nicephore Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they were called were the prototype for the modern photograph, by letting light draw the picture. This improved the communication by visual means as it was possible to capture a live moment forever.
  • telegraph - Samuel F. B. Morse

    telegraph - Samuel F. B. Morse
    His invention revolutionized communications, making it possible to transmit messages across long distances with almost no delay. This greatly improved correspondence between colonies and direct contact all over the world.
  • mail improvement - Sir Rowland Hill,

    mail improvement - Sir Rowland Hill,
    changed the face of the postal service forever it is Sir Rowland Hill, with his reforms of the postal system based on the concept of penny postage, and his solution of pre payment.[12] In his proposal Hill also called for official pre-printed envelopes and adhesive postage stamps as alternative ways of getting the sender to pay for the postage, at a time when prepayment was optional, which led to the invention of the postage stamp, the Penny Black. This improved communicati
  • Typewritter-Christopher Latham Sholes

    Typewritter-Christopher Latham Sholes
    This meant that books and written documents can be written with a machine instead of by hand. It improved writing and communicating by being efficient and effective. There were other typewriters invented before this but they were cumbersome and it was quicker to write by hand. This was the first practical and useful typewriter.
  • Telegram - Thomas Eddison

    Telegram - Thomas Eddison
    Thomas Alva Edison conceived the principle of recording and reproducing sound between May and July 1877 as a byproduct of his efforts to "play back" recorded telegraph messages and to automate speech sounds for transmission by telephone. This “telegraph” was later built upon to become the gramophone and the technology was used in radios and other inventions. Made communication better because there could be a sound recorded and replayed to share information.