World History Site > Communication Technologies and World History > A Short History of Cultural Technologies - see sections: How Writing Began; Diffusion of Ideographic Writing; Alphabetic Writing; Spread of Alphabetic Scripts, and later Printing.
See articles:
How Communication Technology Drives Civilization's Changing Ideals
Impact of Cultural Technologies upon Public Experience
Relationship between Cultural Technologies and Civilizations
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The Media History Project Timeline See: 1400-1599, 1600-1699, 1700-1799
The British Library's Online Gallery
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Electricity Creates the Wired World -top-
From optical telegraph to the electric telegraph. Atlantic cables of the mid 1800s
Samuel Morse Papers Related to the invention of the telegraph.
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Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society -top-
- Early Photojournalism
Photojournalism Exhibition Victoria and Albert Museum. "Photojournalism emerged as a distinctive form of photography in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The term denoted picture making that was spontaneous, topical and rapid. This was facilitated by the introduction of small, hand-held cameras such as the Ermanox and the Leica, which enabled photographers to record fast-moving events and catch their subjects unawares. Meanwhile, political turmoil and the rise of mass-circulation news stimulated a huge demand for illustrated magazines. Picture Post, Life and Vu were all established at this period."
Freed slaves and other Civil War photography by Mathew Brady
Slideshow of Jacob Riis Photographs including indoor shots of New York City's poor in the 1890s.
Cartoons & Political Prints from Harper's Weekly and other illustrated journals from 1860-1912.
- Dream Worlds of Consumption
Wanamaker's 1902 Grand Depot, Philadelphia
Maison Blanche, New Orleans | Tiffany mosaic dome, Chicago | Joskes, San Antonio | Shuneman & Evans, St. Paul | Rotunda Hess Bros,. Allentown"The Big Store, A City in Itself (Siegel-Cooper, NYC, 1899)" "The Fine Things of the World Come to Wanamaker's (Philadelphia)."
Early Motion Pictures
The earliest movies were seen in Penny Arcades.
The History of the Discovery of Cinematography Comprehensive web site by Paul Burns.
Iva Toguri, another World War II radio propagandist.
A variety of TV channels
including music television.
