Curated category
Communication
- Signifyin'During the era of slavery in the United States, a folk trickster figure known as the signifying monkey emerged from African mythology.
- Mass mediaThe first dated print book known as the Diamond Sutra appeared in China in 868 AD. Movable clay type followed in 1041, yet early printed mass media likely…
- InformationThe English word information emerged from Middle French enformacion, which itself traced back to the Latin root informatiō.
- RadioHeinrich Hertz stood in a laboratory on the 11th of November 1886. He held a primitive spark-gap transmitter that generated invisible waves.
- CommunicationThe word communication has its root in the Latin verb communicare, which means to share or to make common. Scholars have long argued over whether a single…