Communication History

Student Name: __________________________

Period: ______________

Score: ___________

What is the act of transferring information from creature to creature, person to person, and point to point?
___________
True or False Communicating is an important activity during every waking hour in every day of our lives?
One of the simplest forms of communication is what? __________________________
Which one of the following is not one of the simple forms of communication mention in this reading? (Circle one)
A. Traffic policeman using gestures to
Communicate to automobile drivers
B. The slap of a beavers tail on water
C. The painted center line on a busy highway
D. Raising your hand in class

E.
F.
G.
H.

Traffic lights
The bark of a dog
Blowing your nose when you are sick
The scream of a fire truck

Each day we do which of the following in communication that is mentioned in our reading:
A. We express our own ideas
B. We listen to hear the ideas of others
C. We use our sense of sight for reading
& Interpreting visual forms of communication

D. All of the Above

E. None of the above

True or False Blind people have developed their sense of touch so that they may read by running their fingers over the
normal printed page. Symbols are not raised on the page for them to read.
List the 5 natural devices that we have for communicating:
________________________________________________________________________
True or False Cavemen had a language that was similar to what we use today.

Cavemen were able to communicate by using sounds in the forms of: (List three)

The cavemen were able to express their feelings with ___________________________________________

How did the cavemen communicate anger? ___________________________________

A gliding hand and arm of a caveman meant what? ______________

Early man also communicated by recording his thoughts, feelings, and experiences with crude figures drawn on which
one of the following? (Circle One)
A.
B.

Bark
Animal skins

C.
D.

Cave walls
All of the above

True or False As the world of early man began to expand, they developed a system which would enable him to
communicate to large numbers of people and over greater distances.
The development of tribal languages accomplished only part of early mans desire for expanded communications. List
2 other ways of communication used between tribes to communicate by setting up series of signaling stations, he could
relay messages.

As early man became more skilled in his ability to draw, he began developing a composed of symbols called what?

True or False Messages were generally carved into stone tables, a task that was easy and not very difficult and the
weight of the tablets, encouraged sending of messages any great distance.
It is recorded that the early Egyptians developed a material known as what, which could be written on.
____
True or False The ink that the Egyptians wrote on was made from cuttie fish, and writing pens made from hollow
reeds, bamboo, or feathers were used to record the symbols.

Later, paper was invented by whom?

For along time messages were written by hand on what so they could be saved or carried over long distances to other
people.

For many years, man searched for a method of casting a message in one form so that several copies could be made
without the need to rewrite each time. Although unaware of it, this was mans search, in part, for
__________________________ using printed images to convey a message. With the increase demand for several
copies of a message, man developed techniques of printing. This method proved inadequate because the carving was
slow. This early attempt involved the use of which one of the following:
A. Paper

B. Animal Skin

C. Wood Blocks

D. Bamboo

E. Reeds

F. All of the Above

Who was credited with the use of movable metal type that could be reused several times?
A.
Martin Luther
C. Robert Fulton
B.
Albert Einstein
D. Johann Gutenberg
C.
True or False Movable type was more difficult and slower to assemble into new messages than handcarved wood
blocks.

True or False Early printing was performed on hand-operated presses.

True or False The person credited for making moveable type that at one time he converted a wine press
(used to squeeze grapes or other food) into a printing press.
Even tough the new process of printing improved the quality of a prepared message; it still took a long time to
transport it over long distances. Many years later, what was one solution to solving this problem?

Explain why the last method mentioned had a problem?

Name the next invention that made it possible to send messages over great distances by using a series of
electrical impulses in the form of dots and dashes? ________________________________
What was the name of the person that standardized the dots and dashes to represent the alphabet? Name
this person?
_
What was the name that allowed messages to be sent by tapping out the message in dot and dash code for each
individual letter? The operator who decodes the electrical impulses writes the received message into words.

True or False In emergency cases this code still is used today when electricity fails?
What was invented to allow voice messages to be sent from one point to another? _____________________
Who invented this voice messages to be sent from one point to another. At first it was limited capabilities to talk over
hundreds of miles but today we can talk anywhere in the world from the comfort of our homes or office?
Spurred on by the invention of the telegraph and telephone, scientists soon began experimenting with
other forms of electrical communication devices. The development of ______________________made it
possible to communicate over long distances to a large listening audience in different locations.
What was the radio first called & why was it so different from the telephone?

Soon after the development of the radio, it was discovered that not only sound but visual images as well could be
sent from point to point using a principle similar to radio broadcasting. This led to the development of what?
True or False Since early man began to communicate many different systems of communication directly with most
parts of our world and even into outer space.
True or False Satellites have made it possible to view events as they take place in any part of the world or even on
the surface of the moon.
List the 3 ways that we communicate from this brief history of communication system and define the meaning of
each:
Define:
Define:
Define:
Communicated messages may have different purposes, depending upon the need of the individual or organization
that is communicating. These messages are used to: (List 6 of the 8 of them)

The method used to communicate a message is often dependent on what 3 things:

True or False Methods of communicating range from the very simple to the very complex-from gestures such as a
wave of the hand to electronic systems such as television or satellite.
In order list the 12 major events in the history of communication? _

The great varieties of methods of communicating that lie somewhere between the simple & very complex (two
extremes) are part of our everyday life. Share with me from your personal experiences what things of
communication have an effect in your everyday life. _