The aim of this exercise is to allow you to provide
a brief biography of some of the main people who have been pioneers
in the development of communications systems. You are required to
produce a report and then present this report to the class in the
designated session using overheads to support your presentation.
The overhead should contain some type of graphic or illustration.
2. Report
Each student will be allocated person to research
and then present a brief biography. These are:
· Print - Gutenberg
· Lithography - Senefelder
· Photography – Schulze / Davy / Niépce
· Telegraph - Morse
· Telephone – Bell
· Film - Lumière brothers
· Radio - Marconi
· Television - Baird
· Theory of Hypertext and Internet - Vannevar Bush
· Computer graphics – Sutherland
· Personal Computer - Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
· Hypertext - Ted Nelson
· Multimedia - Negroponte
· Internet - Berners-Lee
3. Resources
Web resources for information. Starting points:
Media History – General
Media History Project
http://www.mediahistory.com/
The Dead Media Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/global/globalsbook.html
Printing - Gutenburg
Gutenburg.de
http://www.gutenberg.de/
Media History Project - Gutenburg
http://www.mediahistory.com/time/gallery/gutenb.html
Johannes Gutenburg
http://www.snu.edu/syllabi/history/f96projects/reform1/gut.htm
Gutenburg Digital
http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/
Project Gutenberg DE (for interest)
http://www.gutenberg.aol.de//gutenb.htm
Lithography - Senefelder
Senefelder, Prague, Lithography
http://geocities.com/Eureka/Promenade/2303/snf.html
Aloys Senefelder
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13714b.htm
ALOIS SENEFELDER (1771-1834)
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/arts/senefelder.html
Lithography
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/07526.html
Chromolithography
http://www.octavo.com/marginalia/chromolitho.html
Photography – Schulze / Davy / Niépce
Photography – The pioneers
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/2/0,5716,115102+3,00.html
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
http://www.eastman.org/
Timeline of Photography
http://www.eastman.org/5_timeline/5_index.html
Johann Heinrich Schulze
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/10155.html
Sir Humphry Davy
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/03475.html
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/1/0,5716,57191+1,00.html
Photography and film
http://www.lineone.net/kazoo/homework/faxfinder/invent/c--photography-d.html
George Eastman
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/eastman.html
Telegraph - Morse
SAMUEL F.B. MORSE
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsI-Q/morse.html
Samuel Morse history site
http://www.morsehistoricsite.org/morse/morse.html
Samuel F. B. Morse
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/atthtml/mrshome.html
Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/graham_bell.html
Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/albell/homepage.html
Alexander Graham Bell - Scottish Inventor
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96mar/bell.html
Film – Lumière brothers
100 Years Since Lumière Shock
http://www.informatics.tuad.ac.jp/net-expo/cinema/lumiere/en/index.html
Le Cinématographe
http://www.institut-lumiere.org/francais/snoeud.html
The Lumière brothers and film history
http://homepages.unl.ac.uk/sofia/camera/lumiere.html
Radio - Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi - The "Father of Radio"
http://www.marconiusa.org/marconi/index.html
Comitato Guglielmo Marconi International
http://www.geocities.com/guglielmom/
Guglielmo Marconi
http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/71.html
Guglielmo Marconi
http://www.etedeschi.ndirect.co.uk/marconi/
Magnetic Recording Tape - Marvin Camras
Marvin Camras
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/camras.html
Television - Baird
John Logie Baird
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/baird.html
Eye of the World: John Logie Baird and Television (Part I)
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/hills961.htm
John Logie Baird, television and lifelong learning
http://www.infed.org/walking/wa-baird.htm
Television Remote Control – Robert
Adler
Robert Adler
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/adler.html
Theory of Hypertext and Internet - Vannevar
Bush
Vannevar Bush
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0034.html
As we may think – Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm
Vannevar Bush
http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/~guay/Paradigm/Bush.html
Vannevar Bush
http://www.ruku.com/vannevar.html
The Computer – Alan Turing
Babbage
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/exhibits/cb.html
Computer history
http://www.dis.uu.se/dsv/education/courses/vt03/Datavetenskap/articles/Computers%20-%20Short%20History.pdf
Computer Scientist – Alan Turing
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/turing.html
The Microprocessor - Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff
Ted Hoff
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/hoff.html
Personal Computer - Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsI-Q/apple.html
Steve Jobs
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/archive_j.html
Computer graphics – Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/sutherland.html
Ivan Sutherland: First Virtual Reality Pioneer
http://www.uni-weimar.de/architektur/InfAR/lehre/Course01/i_suth.html
Biography of a Luminary - Dr. Ivan E. Sutherland
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs6751_97_fall/projects/abowd_team/ivan/ivan.html
Sketchpad
http://www.dedicated-systems.com/encyc/techno/terms/81/83.htm
Computer mouse - Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/engelbart.html
Hypertext - Nelson
Ted Nelson
http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/~guay/Paradigm/Nelson.html
Xanadu
http://www.aus.xanadu.com/xanadu/
Ted Nelson and Xanadu
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html
Ted Nelson's Big Step
http://www.techreview.com/articles/oct98/ditlea.htm
Multimedia - Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
http://www.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/
About Nicholas Negroponte, the Author of Being Digital
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/nnbio.htm
Being digital
http://www.bkstore.com/mit/fac/negroponte.html
BEING digital
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm
Nicholas Negroponte Interviewed by John Papageorge
http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/negroponte/
An Interview with Nicholas Negroponte
http://www.beacham.com/negroponte_95_673.html
The Digital Compact Disc – James T.
Russell
James T. Russell
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsR-Z/russell.html
The Internet – Berners - Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/graham_bell.html
Tim Berners-Lee home page
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
Weaving the Web
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html
Network Designer - Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/bernerslee.html
General
Cartwright, "Development of Multimedia", Multimedia Cartography
New Media Studies
http://www.newmediastudies.com/
Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation, (eds.) Hugh Mackay
and Tim O’Sullivan.
Sage Publications: London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi. 1999. ISBN
0-7619-6250-6
Watching Television, (ed.) Todd Gitlin. Pantheon Books: New York.
1987. ISBN 0-394-74651-1
McLuhan for Beginners, W. Terrence Gordon. Writers and Readers:
New York, London. 1997.
ISBN 0-86316-231-2
International Guide of Entertainment/Media Hyper-Links
http://www.spectrocom.com/globalmedia/
Sam's Telecomms History Links Page
http://www.samhallas.cwc.net/histlink.htm
4. Presentation
The presentation will take place in the class and the maximum time
is 5 minutes.
In the presentation you will cover general history of the invention
that this person is famous for, ie
· Who was this person?
· What was developed?
· What were the advantages of this new medium 7 communications
device?
The presentation is to be supported by the use of an overhead(s)
You will need to provide a printed copy of your presentation.
5. General
Presentation /5
§ 5 minutes (with perhaps 2 minutes overrun)
§ Supported by specified presentation media
Documentation /5:
· Written summary – 1 page
· References
Documentation due at presentation.
