CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Samuel Morse, Teleprinter, Communication Theory

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

1800s messages over wires samuel morse popularized the telegraph. First encoded by telegraph operators who converted words into letters by hand and each letter into morse code. Later automated by teletype machine which sped up the process. Telegraphs pioneered input devices, storage devices, and underlying technological methods such as multiplexing (sending more than one message at a time to make the most of the limited amount of capacity available on wires) Allowed instantaneous communication over long distances for the first time. Made control at a distance easier: workers able to control their employees from far away or shippers could gain knowledge about their far away market and ship at the lowest price. One of the first new media where advertising was used. Canadian professor of economics at university of toronto. Staples theory: explain economic life in terms of basic ( staple ) trading goods in an economy (eg fish, wheat, furs)