Industrial Age (1770s – 1930s)

-People used the power of stream, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the
manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press)

EXAMPLES:

Printing Press for Mass Production

-a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, threby transferring the
ink

Newspaper – London Gazette (1640)

-it was not a newspaper in the modern sense: it was sent by post to subscribers, not printed for sale to
the general public

Typewriter (1800)

-a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by

printer’s movable type.

Telephone (1876)

-a communication device for sailing vessels. This instrument used four air horns to communicate with
vessels in foggy weather

Motion Pictures Photography/Projection (1890)

-a collapsible bellows-camera and contained a pointed punch which would strike and thereby identify
each new exposure on the roll prior to its passing before a slit at the shutter

Motion Pictures w/ Sound (1926)

-a sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as
opposed to a silent film

Telegraph

-a long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic messages without the physical exchange of an

object bearing the message

Punch Cards

-a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital information represented by the presence or
absence of holes in predefined positions