Communication History Terms

Around 30,000 BC murals were painted on cave walls that told stories of battles, hunts, amd culture

Around 10,000 BC images were created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading

9,000 BC saw the development of pictures that represent an object or an idea

The imparting or exchanging of information or news.

Communication in the form of spoken or written words.

Speech is the expression of, or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds

Something that represents or stands for something else

Around 30,000 BC murals were painted on cave walls that told stories of battles, hunts, and culture

Around 10,000 BC images were created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading.

9,000 BC saw the development of pictures that represent an object or an idea.

A written character that symbolizes the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters

A sequence of letters, words, or symbols marked on paper or other surface

A set of letters or symbols in a fixed order

Johann Gutenburg invented an actual printing press in 1450

In 1714 an Englishman, Henry Mill, received the first patent for a typewriter.

1831 Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston in 1876.

1951, The first commercially available, “mass produced” electronic computer entered the market

In 1973 a global computer network emerged, providing a variety of information and communication facilities. These interconnected networks us