Evolution of Media Study Set

Vocabulary flashcards covering the evolution of media from the Pre-Industrial Age to the Information Age, including key inventions and inventors.

Media

Means of communication for people which includes newspapers, radio, televisions, and the internet.

Pre-Industrial Age

The period before the 1700s where prehistoric inhabitants used crude stone tools and metals, discovered fire, and developed paper from plants.

Petroglyphs and Pictographs

Considered the earliest form of media used by prehistoric inhabitants.

Industrial Age

The period from the 1700s to the 1930s characterized by the industrial revolution in Great Britain and the substitution of handy tools with machines.

Johannes Gutenberg

The inventor associated with the Printing Press during the Industrial Age.

Désiré van Monckhoven & Richard Leach Maddox

The inventors associated with the development of Dry Plates.

Sholes and Glidden

The inventors associated with the Typewriter.

Alexander Graham Bell

The inventor of the Telephone during the Industrial Age.

Samuel FB Morse & Alfred Vail

The inventors of the Telegraph and Morse Code.

Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

The inventors of the Kinetograph.

Electronic Age

The period from the 1930s to the 1980s when people utilized the power of electricity for devices like the transistor radio and television.

Transistor

The invention that piloted the rise of the electronic age.

Information Age

Also known as the digital age (1990s-2000s), characterized by faster communication through social networks and the worldwide web.