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PreIndustrial Communication
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Pre-Industrial Communication
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Pre-Industrial Society
Pre-industrial society refers to social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which occurred from 1750 to 1850.
Pre-industrial is a time before there were machines and tools to help perform tasks en masse.The main era known as the Pre-Industrial Society occurred right before the industrial society.
Pre-Industrial Society
Cave Paintings (30000 BC)
What are cave paintings?
What are cave paintings?
Cave paintings are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin. The exact purpose of the Paleolithic cave paintings is not known.
They are also often located in areas of caves that are not easily accessible. Some theories hold that cave paintings may have been a way of communicating with others, while other theories ascribe a religious or ceremonial purpose to them.
Code of Hammurabi (1772 BCE)
What is the Code of Hammurabi
What is the Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1772 BCE. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.
Nearly one-half of the code deals with matters of contract, establishing, for example, the wages to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon. Other provisions set the terms of a transaction, establishing the liability of a builder for a house that collapses, for example, or property that is damaged while left in the care of another.
Papyrus (2500 BC)
What is a papyrus?
What is a papyrus?
A papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined together side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book.
Clay Tablets (2400 BC)
What is a clay tablet?
What is a clay tablet?
Clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.
Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets.
Printing Press Using Wood Blocks(220 AD)
What is a wood block printing press?
What is a wood block printing press?
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD. Woodblock printing existed in Tang China during the 7th century AD and remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century.
German Goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg (1473 AD)
German Goldsmith Johannes Gutenbe...
Who was Johannes Gutenberg
Who was Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press. His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium, ushering in the modern period of human history.