INDUSTRIAL AGE

The Industrial Age began in the 18th century, when agricultural societies became more industrialized and urban. The transcontinental railroad, the cotton gin, electricity and other inventions permanently changed society.

Group Insight:
Our group realized that this age is when people started using electronic materials to be able to invent new medium for communication and entertainment. This age was the start of communicating through wires. With this, the lives of many were slowly becoming easier, the different devices slowly started to improve that became such a convenience for many and here started the evolution of different kinds of technology.

The spinning jenny was a multi-spindle spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in weaving during the Industrial Revolution.

During the industrial revolution, people were not happy with the spinning jenny because of the thought that such machines would replace workers thus making them unemployed. People rioted and those who had bought spinning jennies were obliged to hide and preserve their machines in order to not have them destroyed.

The telegraph was the first form of communication that could be sent from a great distance and was a landmark in human history. For the first time man could communicate with another from a great distance changing everything from how wars were fought to how people dated and fell in love.

Samuel Morse sent the first ever message over the telegraph on May 24, 1844. The message read, "What hath God wrought!" It was a passage from the Bible's Book of Numbers, which was chosen by Annie Ellsworth, the daughter of a friend..

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

Most of us tend to take printed materials for granted, but imagine life today if the printing press had never been invented. We would not have books, magazines or newspapers. Posters, flyers, pamphlets and mailers would not exist. The printing press allows us to share large amounts of information quickly and in huge numbers.

A typewriter is a hand-operated mechanical device with which on typing keys can produce printed characters on paper.

Around 9-10 years ago (2009-2010), my dad still used a typewriter in his office despite having printers already.

Telephone

Telephone, an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice.

Our family used to have 2 telephones at most for years. We stopped and switched to cellphones.

Motion Pictures

A sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.

Almost every day, most people, including myself, spend some of my time watching movies.