Learning Objective 4

Explain the advantages and limitations of a digital representation in a historical as well as modern context In a historical context, digital representation had many limitations compared to in the modern context, how many advantages it has. Historically, communication...

How watching cat videos has evolved over time

In 1838, the game-changing duo of Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail stepped onto the scene with their groundbreaking invention: the telegraph. This nifty gadget totally flipped the script on communication, ditching the old snail-mail method for a slick point-to-point...

How People knew where to place bombs from the sky and long distances

The Norden Bombsight was a significant factor in the success of World War 2. It was created in 1932 and gave military opperatives the abillity to know where to send their bombs from long distances and hit a direct target. This machine has over 2000 parts to it and was...

Why TV’s aren’t snowy anymore

Last week in class, we looked at the change in telephones and TV’s over time and the shift from analog to digitial and the differences that the switch had made. Telephones switched from analog to digital in the 1990’s and when this happened people could do...