Communication Technology Scavenger Hunt
As you all know from class. Communication technology includes all of the things people have made or developed to send and receive messages. It includes things like the telephone, television, telegraph, sign language, internet, and the World Wide Web. In this Hunt you will be looking to find out who some of the inventors for these forms of communication technology were. The information gathered from this hunt will be used in one of your power point presentations later in the class.
Use the links below to the answer following questions related to communication technology devices.
1. Who invented the telephone?
2. Was the telephone invented before or after the telegraph?
3. What was the year that a practical telegraph system was put into place.
4 What is and who invented the synchronous telegraph?
5 What is George Eastman famous for.
6 Who is given credit for the invention of the television.
7 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. How did it work?
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LINKS
http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm
http://www.cbc4kids.cbc.ca/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html
http://www.cbc4kids.cbc.ca/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html