The discovery of ways to harness electricity was the key

advance made during this period. Knowledge and

information could now be converted into electrical
impulses. The beginnings of telecommunication.
ELECTROMECHANICAL
AGE
 VOLTAIC BATTERY

Alessandro Volta
 Voltaic files consisted of a
stack of alternating discs of zinc
and copper or silver separated
by felt soaked in brine.
They provided, for the first
time, a simple source of stored
electrical energy that didn’t rely
on mechanical means.
 TELEGRAPH

Samuel F.J. Morse

He did not construct a truly
practical system until 1844,
when he build a line from
Baltimore to Washington.
 TELEPHONE AND RADIO

Alexander Graham Bell

TELEPHONE AND RADIO
• Developed the first working t
elephone and transmitted his
now famous quotation “Wats
on, come here, I want you”.
• His telephone was introduced
on a large scale at the Phila
delphia Centennial Exposition
in 1877.
 TELEPHONE AND RADIO

Best known for his development

of a radiotelegraph system,
which served as the foundation
for the establishment of
numerous affiliated companies
worldwide.
Guglielmo Marconi
ELECTROMECHANICAL
COMPUTING
TABULATING MACHINE

Pehr and Advard Scheutz com

plete their tabulating Machine,
capable of processing fifteen-
digit numbers, printing out
results and rounding off to
eight digits.
COMPTOMETER
Is a type of mechanical
(or electro-mechanical) adding
machine. The comptometer was
the first adding device to be
driven solely by the action of
pressing keys, which are
arranged in an array of
vertical and horizontal columns.
COMPTOGRAPH

Felt’s Comptograph,
containing built-in printer, is
Intoduced in 1889.
 PUNCH CARDS

• Was the first person to succ

essfully used punched cards
in 1890.

Herman Hollerith
PUNCH CARDS
• Is a piece of stiff paper that
contains digital information
represented by the presence or
absence of holes in predefined
positions.
• punched cards were widely used th
roughout the 19th century for
controlling textile looms and in the
late 19th and early 20th century
for operating fairground organs
and related instruments.
Thank you..