History of Visual Communications

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1. Parchment

1.1. A substrate made from animal skin such as sheep, goats, and cows

1.2. Parchment replaced papyrus because it was more durable

1.3. Making parchment

1.3.1. 1. Hair and fat removed and skin was smoothed out

1.3.2. 2. Hide was soaked in water. Calcium, flour and salt were added

1.3.3. 3. Skin was stretched out, flattened, and dried

2. Settled in Sumer region because of fertile land

2.1. Cuneiform created there

2.1.1. Helped keep track of these business transactions

2.1.2. Clay tablets

2.1.3. Cuneiform evolved into a wedge shaped language

2.2. Akkadians invade the Sumer region

3. Sumerians

3.1. Theocratic culture ruled by a priest king

3.2. Skilled artisans who created vases, bowl, and other types of pottery.

3.3. Music was a big part of their life.

4. Egyptian hieroglyphics

4.1. combination of logographic and alphabetic elements

4.2. Ancient Egyptians believed it was important to record and communicate information about religion and government

5. Phonetic Alphabet

5.1. One sign represents one spoken sound

5.2. The trade culture of the Phoenician merchants spread the use of the alphabet into parts of North Africa and Europe

5.3. Disintegrated class divisions between royalty and the common man

6. The Codex and the Illuminated Manuscript

6.1. Scrolls

6.1.1. Long continuous piece of papyrus

6.1.2. Made up of separate sheets glued together at the edges

6.2. Codex

6.2.1. Covered and bound collection of handwritten pages

6.2.2. Compactness, sturdiness and ease of reference

6.2.3. Could be opened flat at any page

6.2.4. Christianity used it in the Bible

7. Computers

7.1. Univac

7.1.1. First commercial computer

7.1.2. Designed by John Preseper Eckert and John Mauchly

7.1.3. universal automatic computer

7.2. IBM

7.2.1. International business machines

7.2.2. Developed the IBM701 EDPM computer

7.2.3. Introduced the first memory disk- the Floppy Disk

7.3. Computer mouse

7.3.1. Invented by Douglas Engelbart

7.3.2. Wanted to make computers a more user-friendly tool

7.3.3. Nicknamed the mouse because of its "tail"

7.4. Internet

7.4.1. First internet called ARPnet

7.4.2. It was developed to protect the flow of information between military installations by creating a network of geographically separated computers

7.5. Apple

7.5.1. The Lisa Computer

7.5.1.1. First personal computer with a GUI

7.5.1.1.1. Xerox developed the first GUI

7.5.2. Introduced the Apple Macintosh computer in 1984

8. Papyrus

8.1. 1st: Wet reeds were placed criss cross over each other

8.2. 2nd: Weeds were flattened and dried

8.3. 3rd: They were rubbed with flat stones until the surface became smooth

9. Cave Paintings

9.1. Famous Caves

9.1.1. Lascaux

9.1.1.1. France

9.1.1.2. Closed due to carbon dioxide emitted from tourists and ruining the paintings

9.1.1.3. French government created Lascaux 2 to satisfy the tourists.

9.1.2. Altamira

9.1.2.1. Spain

9.1.2.2. Red hue

9.1.3. Chauvet Pont d'Arc

9.1.3.1. Oldest known cave painting site

9.1.3.2. Walls scraped clear of debris

9.1.3.3. looks 3D

9.2. Tell stories and event

9.3. Instructional visual aid to help teach about hunting techniques

9.4. Religious reasons that if an image was painted, it would come to life

10. The Gutenberg Press

10.1. Johannes Gutenberg introduced modern book printing

10.1.1. Loved to read

10.1.2. His father was a goldsmith and jeweler

10.1.3. Created oil-based ink

10.2. Printing Press

10.2.1. Hand Press in which ink was rolled over the raised surface of movable hand-set letters held within a wooden frame

10.2.2. Developed from the technology of the screw-type for pressing grapes and olive seeds

10.3. Moveable Type

10.3.1. First developed in China

10.3.2. the system of printing that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document

10.3.3. could be reproduced more quickly once a single mold could be made

10.3.4. John Fust invested in Gutenberg's inventions and eventually got credit for the priting with Schoeffer

10.4. Printing Processes

10.4.1. Relief Printing

10.4.2. Intaglio

10.4.3. Porous

10.4.4. Lithography

11. The Linotype Machine

11.1. Keyboard

11.1.1. 90 character keyboard

11.1.2. Arrangement of keys was based on letter frequency

11.1.3. Black keys for lowercase letters on the left

11.1.4. White keys for uppercase letters on the right

11.1.5. Blue keys for punctuation, digits, small capital letters and fixed with spaces in the middle

11.2. Typewriter

11.2.1. Christopher Sholes invented the only typewrite that became commercially successful

11.2.1.1. Clephane tested his typewriter

11.2.1.2. Clephane went to Ottmar Mergenthaler to help him improve the machine into the Linotype Machine

11.2.2. Most important users of the typewrite were stenographers

11.3. Produces an entire line of metal type at once

12. Photography

12.1. Camera Obscura

12.1.1. An optical device that projects an image of its surroundings onto a screen

12.1.2. In the 17th and 18th centuries the camera obscura shrunk to the size of a portable box and the image was reflected onto ground glass

12.2. Photographic processes

12.2.1. Daguerreotype

12.2.1.1. First practical photographic process

12.2.1.2. Created by Daguerre

12.2.1.3. He exposed a light-sensitive metal sheet, which created a direct positive image

12.2.1.4. Exposure time was reduced from 8 hours to half-hour

12.2.2. Calotype

12.2.2.1. Created by William Fox Talbot

12.2.2.2. The subject was exposed onto a light sensitive paper producing a paper negative

12.2.2.3. It's the basis of our modern photographic process because an unlimited amounts of duplicates could be made

12.2.3. Wet Plate Process

12.2.3.1. Created by Archer

12.2.3.2. Glass plates were used for the negative

12.2.3.3. Exposure time is two or three seconds

12.2.3.4. Glass plates were coated with collodion, a colorless syrupy solution of nitrocellulose in ether

12.2.3.5. Plates had to be exposed and developed immediately while they were still wet

12.2.4. Dry Plate Process

12.2.4.1. Created by Richard Maddox

12.2.4.2. Glass plates were coated with gelatin

12.3. Eastman Kodak Company

12.3.1. He invented a roll film, a photographic medium that replaced fragile glass plates with a photo-emulsion coated on paper rolls

12.3.2. he camera owner could send in the camera with a minimal processing fee. The company would process the film, reload the camera with a new roll, and return it to the owner

12.3.3. Marketed The Brownie to the general public in 1900

12.4. First photographs

12.4.1. Joseph Niepe created the first successful photograph in 1827

12.4.2. James Clerk Maxwell took the first color photograph