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possible solutions ranging from expensive options such as Google Fiber, Sony ‘Nuro’, Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), and inexpensive options like local service providers contributing to the increase in internet bandwidth. Many people grew up with either dial up connection or satellite connection. Having said this,…

implemented to help create learning experiences for early childhood students (Walker, 2015 pp. 35-37). An artefact needs to engage students, allowing them to investigate and explore while assisting them to connect with the world around them. The ‘Rotary Telephone’ is a wonderful early childhood artefact as it is hands on and allows students to…

to ensure that there are no utilities in the immediate area. When you are unaware of gas, electric, Internet or phone lines in the area where you intend to dig, you can cause a malfunction in these services by damaging the lines. To prevent issues, dial 1100 before your dig or visit www.1100.com.au, which is the National Referral Service in Australia for information about the location of underground cables and pipes. If you ignore this step, you may face fees and even fines when issues occur to…

The Telephone and its Societal Impact The telephone is one of the most important and revolutionary inventions of all time. However, with the improvement of telephones and the popularity of cell phones, the telephone is taken for granted. Many people today, especially children, do not understand how the telephone impacted society and how innovative it is. The goal of this report is to bring to light the historical significance and the effect it had on the world. The beginning of the telephone,…

effect; a case in which an individual may feel less inclined to take action because of the amount and presence of others in a group. There were no tangible forces that could prevent nor reasonably frighten anyone in the bystander group to run to a rotary dial phone and call the police during the assault. It’s alarming that social pressure can be powerful enough to be a reason of death…

From Bell to Cell: The History of the Telephone After Alexander Graham Bell successfully spoke the first words over an electric current to his assistant, Thomas Watson, in 1876, he wrote to his father about a future where “friends converse with each other without leaving home” (“The First Telephone Call”). Could he have imagined that the technology he developed would one day strip the restrictions of staying indoors, and open up a world where a friend could be on a beach in San Juan, Puerto…

to your studio monitors. Place the nicely weighted knob within reach at your mix position and twist away like any self respecting audiophile would. The Level Pilot is a great addition to the studio, but here is one minor complaint to note. When you dial the volume level down to just about “off”, the sound disappears from the left speaker just a nanosecond before the right side. While I wish this wasn’t the case, it’s not too…

used by the U.S. Navy for militaristic resolutions. The Mark 1 weighed approximately thirty five tons, was fifty five feet long, and eight feet high. The machine also used subroutines for logarithms and had consisted of one-thousand four hundred rotary dial switches and five-hundred miles of wire. The machine used pre-punch paper tape, and could make calculations…

Science And Technology In The 1940’s Have you ever wondered how technology and science got so advanced? Many different items that we use today started from something that may seem small, such as, medicine, cell phones, and even irregular things like guns and bombs. Linus Pauling once said, “Science is the search for truth. It is not a game in which one tries to beat others.” While not a game, it is fought like one. Scientists have developed weapons and strategies to progress their performance…

Although Bell had won the previous battle against Western Union, the battle of who provided better service was not over. In 1879, The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. was registered and began to work on Edison telephone patents. The first official exchange by The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. was opened on September 6, in London with 10 initial subscribers, but by February The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd had had opened two other exchanges. The company now served a…