A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal expositions and world fairs; the birth of documentary and film out of physiological investigations in the 19th century; the development of press and the popular novel; and the origins of American social science. The history runs from the circuits of exchange to the circulation of goods, people and messages, from the construction of railroads to the emergence of long-distance communication. The author brings a clarifying perspective to the ideologies and theories that accompany these transformations.

"From codes and signals to social media, communication inventions advance the ways we interact with one another. Humorous text follows these inventions throughout history, showing how one invention often led to another--or how some inventions didn't turn out so well."--

Describes inventions that have changed the way we communicate, including the printing press, telephone, radio, television, and the Internet.

From the telegraph to text messages, this imaginative title is sure to have students talking! The ways in which people communicate has changed dramatically. The telephone to a cell phone, and mail to email are just some of the inventions examined in a progressive timeline of ways we communicate.

Introduces the life and accomplishments of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor most widely known for developing the telephone.

The experiments and advances that transformed the world This intriguing series covers the breakthroughs of invention that created the way of life that we take for granted today, and the people who made them. Each book looks at one specific part of history and clearly shows how things were in the past and how they have changed over time. Each book in the series contains full colour illustrations, a table of contents and an index.