Throughout history, there has been several significant events and people that have shaped the development of radio, television and the Web in America. One significant word or term people use is the word, media or communication. The meaning of media is a plural of medium, and also the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely. The term diffusion is a theory that deals with the how and why and also the rate at which technology spreads. (Hilliard & Keith 2) From the Ancient Greeks made caved drawings to communicate with people as well as smoke signals, drums, musical instruments and etc . In 1794, Claude Chappe developed a semaphore, which is a system of sending messages …show more content…
The word television was first used in 1900 in Paris, France. The following year, Reginald Fessenden used a spark generator to send a human voice to communicate with other humans through a media piece. Fessenden continued to develop a continuous-wave detector while Guglielmo Marconi was the first to successfully demonstrate the wireless telegraph . So to keep it brief, from 1900-1909, that was the time period when the Wireless arrives in the first decade of the …show more content…
FM stations started to be authorized, and television was becoming the new medium. A medium is a force acts on objects at a distance, according to Hilliard & Keith in the broadcast century. In case I didn’t explain earlier, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government, created by Congressional statute to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. One of the main events that occurred back in 1941 , was the attack on Pearl Harbor which brought the United States of America into World War II, the day after the attack . The attack was told on radio, by a record of 62 million people, and President Roosevelt declared was on Japan the following