Electronic Age
(1930-1980)

The Electronic Age began in the 1930s with the invention of the transistor and development of electronic circuits. This led to new technologies like the transistor radio, televisions, and early computers that facilitated more efficient long-distance communication. By the 1970s, the electronic age was in full swing as the digital computer became prevalent and economies transitioned to being information and computer-based. The ability to communicate instantly through various electronic mediums connected people globally and returned aspects of oral tradition.

The Electronic Age

The Electronic Age is also known as "The rise of Global Village" with the tap-tap-tap of the telegraph. MCLuhan insisted that electronic media are retribalizing the human race. Instant communication has returned us to pre-alphabetical oral tradition where sound and touch are more important than sight.

Telegraph (1836)

The telegraph was made in the year 1836, the telegraph is a communication system that sends information by making and breaking an electrical connection. It is most associated with sending electrical current pulses along a wire with Morse code encoding.

ENIAC

The ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. ENIAC was the world's first general-purpose electronic computer, it uses in a several such as solving numerical problems.

TRANSISTOR

Transistor is a device that uses to regulates the current or voltage flow and acts as a switch or gate for electronic signals

Radio (1950)

Radio at that time use vacuum tubes to amplify signalssignals. It received electromagnetic waves through antennas and converted them into sound.

Colossus mark

It was the first electronic and programmable computer. It was made to decrypt intercepted messages in WW2. It contained 1,500 tubea in total also 10 of them were made and in use by the end of WW2.

Televisions (1930-1980)

Television combined radio tectechnology with moving images. It usedused cathode ray tubes to display images, with signalssignals transmitted via radio waves.