Blog #8- Com Tech Reflection

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   When listening to people present their communication technology they researched the ones that were very interesting and that stuck out to me were the invention of the United States postal service, the radio, and the invention of the lightbulb. Both are used to this day and have had such an impact on our world. I could say that all three of these inventions had such an impact on communication and changed the way we could communicate in such a positive way. 

United States Postal Service 

When listening to the presentation about the United States Postal Service I learned that it was appointed by Benjamin Franklin and he became the first postmaster general in 1775. The U.S. Postal Service played a big role in the growth and development of the U.S. It helped connect people through the mail instead of having to travel to talk to them. The only communication between the American colonies was mail being transported by riding a horse. The postal service helped to facilitate the westward expansion. During the civil war the U.S.  postal service played a major role in keeping up with communication between soldiers and families from all over the responsibility to have those letters be sent was major. The kind of death of United States Postal Service will mail technically die when digital communication became popular people just sent emails rather than sending letters but people still use mail today just not as much as they did back in the day. What is really popular today including the United States Postal Service is packages that people order online are majorly popular today and magazines are still somewhat popular but those as well can be read digitally.

The Lightbulb

The lightbulb I found interesting was because I learned that the first electric lightbulb was created by Humphry Davy in 1802. This then led to Edison's model of the lightbulb which I never knew a guy before Edison created a different type of lightbulb, was mind blown, to be honest. Many people played such a big role n paving the way for Edison to create the first lightbulb. I learned that in 1879 Joesph Wilson Swan enclosed a glass lightbulb with no air, lead wires, and a light-emitting carbon element part but the light in that bulb didn't last very long. From hearing all of the information about the process of the lightbulb it makes me truly think about all the time it took to make the lightbulb and how many people had to get involved to create such an invention. Another thing is how it took a while for people to figure out what makes a good bulb and what needs to go into it to make the light last which I can see how hard that could be with all of the elements needing to be involved in the equation had to be perfect and that is exactly what Edison did he made the perfect lightbulb for people to use back in the day. The end of the old lightbulb made by Edison was taken over by LED lightbulbs which these lightbulbs lasted such a long time without going out you rarely needed to replace them which put the old lightbulbs to waste but greater technology was invented to create such an amazing LED lightbulb. The lightbulb was obviously necessary so people didn't have to use candles for light and other methods of light this way people could just turn on a light and be fine without any complications the lightbulb is a must-have in today's world and will forever be used. 

The Radio

I learned that the Radio was invented in 1895 by an Italian investor names Guglielmo Marconi who sent and received the first-ever radio signal. The first ever signal received was in 1902. The importance of the radio was to have people's voices heard not just from on TV but on something you listen to every day either driving to work or just chilling in your home. Lots of people had radios they were extremely popular due to the popularity of music back in those days everyone wanted to own a radio so they could listen to music nonstop without having to go and actually be there to see the person perform. In today's society, we don't really use the radio but it is surely still a thing people use to mainly listen to the radio but now with such advanced technology we have music on our phones with just a click we can hear whatever music we wanted instead of having to wait for a certain song to come on.