One technology that I think represents a rhyme of history is the telephone. As stated by Thornburg, “A Rhyme in history is an affect or effect of a new development rekindles something from the distant past” (Laureaute Education, 2010). The telephone has advanced over the years starting from landline phones, to mobile phones and even internet phones. The idea behind it is communication. Communication has always been an important facet in history even before telephones were around. Being able to relay information has dated back to even before the mail was delivered by the Pony Express. Telephones just added to the idea of people having the need to communication and interact. Telephones are and have been an important part of business, government and industry, in addition to our own personal lives. Just about everyone I know owns a mobile phone. The mobile phone has more means of communication that ever with its enhanced capabilities. The capabilities being access to the Internet, text and picture messages, and email which encompasses various forms of communication from oral to written.
I have enclosed some Websites about telephones in my references.
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century.(2010). Telephone Timeline. Retrieved July 11, 2010 at http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3625
Thornburg. D. (2009). Rhymes of History. Laureate Education, Inc. Retrieved July 11, 2010 from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?
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Wikipedia (2010). Telephone. Retrieved July 11, 2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone
Wikipedia (2010). Telephone. Retrieved July 11, 2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone
I am sooo spoiled by my phone! I left it in my friend's car and had to go one night without it. I was lost! I was worried that I would get a flat tire and have no way to get help! What did we do before the cell phone! I am so glad this technology has evolved, and it is so nice that it has rekindled communication!
ReplyDeleteHi Carol,
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting “Rhyme of History”. Communication has always been an important part of human interaction. Man has wanted to keep in contact, be it for telling whether an enemy is coming, that a big meeting is on Tuesday, or telling someone special that you care.
I can see it going back in American history to the smoke signals and in China where smoke signals were used during the day and the light of the fire at night to send signals along the Great Wall. Later on, the pony express carried letters and then the “high tech” telegraph came along. Now, “others” text messages over the phone while they are driving. :-(
Ginger