ELECTRONIC

AGE OF MEDIA
 Electronic Age
• People harnessed the power of
electricity that led to electrical
telegraphy, electrical circuits and
the early large scale computers
(through vacuum tubes, transistors
and integrated circuits). In this age,
long distance communication
became possible.
 Formats or
Equipments People
Used to
Communicate
with Each Other
 1. Electrical Telegraph
• Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by
Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other
inventors
• the telegraph revolutionized long-
distance communication
• It worked by transmitting electrical
signals over a wire laid between stations
• A telegram is a message sent via
telegraph.
• In addition to helping invent the
telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a
code (bearing his name) that assigned
a set of dots and dashes to each letter
of the English alphabet and allowed
for the simple transmission of complex
messages across telegraph lines.
2. Telephone
• derived from the Greek: τῆλε, tēle, "far" and
φωνή, phōnē, "voice", together meaning
"distant voice“
• a telecommunications device that permits two
or more users to conduct a conversation when
they are too far apart to be heard directly
• telegraph and telephone are very similar in
concept, and it was through Bell's attempts to
improve the telegraph that he found success
with the telephone.
• telephone was the first device in history that
enabled people to talk directly with each other
across large distances
3. Computers
• computer is a machine that can be
instructed to carry out sequences of
arithmetic or logical operations
automatically via computer programming.
• The computer age began when ENIAC
(Electronic Numerical Integrator and
Calculator) was completed in 1945. The
first multipurpose computer, ENIAC set
speed records with an amazing 5,000
additions per second. It is a subsequent
computer employing vacuum tubes and
known as first-generation computers.
4. Radio
• technology of signaling or communicating
using radio waves.
• Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of
frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300
gigahertz (GHz). Generated by an
electronic device called a transmitter
connected to an antenna which radiates
the waves, and received by a radio receiver
connected to another antenna
• used in radio and television broadcasting, cell
phones, two-way radios, wireless networking
and satellite communication among numerous
other uses, radio waves are used to carry
information across space from a transmitter to a
receiver, by modulating the radio signal
(impressing an information signal on the radio
wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in
the transmitter
• AM (amplitude modulation) – in an AM
transmitter, the amplitude (strength) of the radio
carrier wave is varied by the modulation signal.
• FM (frequency modulation) – in an FM
transmitter, the frequency of the radio carrier
wave is varied by the modulation signal.