Media & Communication.pdf

Eyewitness

MEDIA &

COMMUNICATION

Telegram forms

and tokens

Portable

typewriter, 1969

1980s pager

Telephone

operator’s

gas mask

1990s mobile

phone

Wearable

computer,

produced

in 1998

The Diamond Sutra,

a Buddhist scroll

printed in a.d. 868

1909 Report on “telegraphist’s cramp,”

now known as repetitive strain injury

Eyewitness

1880s Morse code

transmitter

MEDIA &

COMMUNICATION

Written by

CLIVE GIFFORD

Ground-to-air

signal

Ground-to-air

signal indicating

direction

Early radio and

receiver

Stone marker, or

cairn, indicating

direction

Stone marker,

or cairn,

indicating a

left turn

Ink blotter from

a telegraph office

London, new York,

MeLbourne, Munich, and deLhi

Discover more at

Project editor Carey Scott

Art editor Joanne Connor

Senior managing editor Linda Martin

Senior managing art editor Julia Harris

Production Kate Oliver

Picture researcher Frances Vargo

DTP designer Andrew O’Brien

Jacket designer Chris Branfield

Special photography Steve Gorton

Feather quill

This Eyewitness ® Book has been conceived by

Dorling Kindersley Limited and Editions Gallimard

First American edition, 1999

Sanitary telephone

mouthpiece

Published in the United States by

Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.

375 Hudson Street,

New York, NY 10014

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phone cards

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Smoke

signal

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gifford, Clive.

Media and communication / written by Clive Gifford.

p. cm. — (Eyewitness Books)

Includes index.

1. Communication — History. 2. Mass media — History.

I. Title. II. Title: Media and communication.

P90. G474 2000 302.2 — dc21

99–22723

ISBN 0-7894-6295–8 (pb) ISBN 0-7894-6294-X (hc)

Color reproduction by Colourscan, Singapore

Printed in China by Toppan Printing Co. (Shenzhen) Ltd.

Space age television, 1969

Morse code

transmitter

Powerbook

computer,

1998

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