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A speculative view of the ancient origins of written communication and the role of the ancient technical communicator.
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- 2. Everybody Knows What Can Happen If You Do Not Have a Technical Writer On the Project
- 4. Learning Objectives: • Understand the long history of technical communication and that communicators have been acting in this role since antiquity. • Understand the significant historical events and technological changes that have shaped written communication. • Understand how a long history can enhance technical communicators professional status. • Understand how theory and history will be crucial in defining technical communicators future.
- 5. • What’s in a name? • Does professional history equate with salary?
- 7. Has technological advancement driven the need for technical communicators?
- 8. Tebeaux covers the period from 1475-1640 A.D. and she describes how the printing press made affordable books the key to advances in technical communication. Because she has done such a marvelous work, we can briefly see some of the excellent examples she has used in her book The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475- 1640 (1996).
- 11. Holographic technology Biometrics including DNA computing and biomimetics Structured video and graphical content Responsive Design Writing the future of communication (2,015 A.D. and beyond)
- 12. American government releases control of internet and WWW is born AOL- America goes online! Microsoft, Apple, IBM all become major market shapers Linux, Google, Netscape, XML change the landscape of computing LinkedIn, Facebook 1TB drives, 3-D printing become available A quick history of major events affecting our world (1,994 – 2,015 A.D.)
- 13. ARPANET started by MIT The floppy disc is invented The microprocessor is invented First Apple home computer invented First cellular phone used in Japan First IBM PC and the first laptop computers sold to the public A quick history of major events affecting our world (1,976 – 1,980 A.D.)
- 14. The cathode-ray tube television invented John Logie Baird transmits the first experimental television signal First television broadcasts in the United States Movietone system of recording film sound on an audio track right on the film invented Computers are first sold commercially Photocopier or Xerox machine invented A quick history of major events affecting our world (1923 - 1958 A.D.)
- 15. Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph Samuel Morse invents Morse code Christopher Shoales creates the first successful modern typewriter Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone A quick history of written communication (1,821 – 1,876 A.D.)
- 16. Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable type Leipzig German merchant prints first daily newspaper Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter Development of the steam engine in 1698 A quick history of written communication (1,455 – 1,698 A.D.)
- 17. Bound books found in use First wooden printing presses invented in China - symbols Movable type (made of clay) invented in China Newspapers first appear in use in Europe A quick history of written communication (100 A.D. - 1450 A.D.)
- 18. A quick history of written communication (3,500 – 1,400 B.C.)
- 19. The Greeks start the very first library (530 B.C.) Papyrus rolls and early parchments used (530 – 170 B.C.) China uses paper in the form that we know it (105 B.C.) A quick history of major events affecting our world (530 - 105 B.C.)
- 20. After the journey along the ladder of time, let’s look deeper at the origins of written communication
- 21. A history of our written record from antiquity
- 22. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects 1,780 A.D. inscription on a Jade Bi from 1,200 B.C.
- 23. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects Brass Astrolabe 1345-1355 A.D.
- 24. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects Gold coins from India 415- 450 A.D. Gold coins minted in Damascus, Syria 696 -697 A.D. Gold coins minted in Turkey 550 B.C. Silver coin with the head of Alexander the Great minted in Turkey 305 - 281 B.C.
- 25. • Papyrus rolls and early parchments used in 97 A.D.
- 26. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects The Rosetta Stone 196 B.C. - Used to crack the code on Egyptian hieroglyphics
- 27. Mummy of Hornedjitef from Thebes, Egypt (About 240 B.C.) Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects
- 28. INSCRIPTION OF ASSURBANIPAL CYLINDER A ASSURBANIPAL, KING OF ASSYRIA (686 B.C.) TRANSLATED BY SIR H. RAWLINSON RECORDS OF THE PAST WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE ASSYRIAN AND EGYPTAIN MONUMENTS PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY VOLUME 1 ASSYRIAN TEXTS , SECOND EDITION
- 29. 69 Garments costly and beautiful, great horses, people male and females: two lofty obelisks covered with beautiful carvings.
- 30. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects Lachish Reliefs 700 - 692 B.C. Said to have been written by King Sennacharib himself
- 31. RECORDS OF THE PAST WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE ASSYRIAN AND EGYPTAIN MONUMENTS PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY VOLUME 1 ASSYRIAN TEXTS , SECOND EDITION INSCRIPTION OF BELLINO’S CYLINDER SENNACHERIB, KING OF ASSYRIA (703 B.C.) TRANSLATED BY H. F. TALBOT F. R. S. (1,850 A. D.)
- 32. 9 I broke open his royal treasury: gold and silver: vessels of gold and silver: precious stones of every kind: goods and valuables much royal treasures.
- 33. 49 Within its old limits I walled up its stream. The low platform I raised higher, and paved it firmly with stones of great size, covered with bitumen, for a space I elevated above the waters and restored it to be again dry ground.
- 34. 49 1700 measures long: 162 measures wide, on the upper side towards the north: 217 measures wide in the center, 386 measures wide, on the lower side towards the south, fronting the river Tigris, I completed the mound, and I measured the measure.
- 35. THE GATES OF SHALMANESER BRONZE RELIEFS FROM THE GATES OF SHALMANESER KING OF ASSYRIA B.C. 860-825
- 38. 44 (Dated) the month Mukhur-ili,1 the 20th day, during the eponymy of SHALMAN-KARRADU
- 39. Law Code of Hammurabi (1,780 B.C.)
- 40. INSCRIPTION OF KHAMMURABI (About 2,220 B.C.) TRANSLATED BY H. F. TALBOT F. R. S.
- 41. The canal Khammurabi, the joy of men, a stream of abundant waters, for the people of Sumir and Accad I excavated. Its banks, all of them, I restored to newness: new supporting walls I heaped up: perennial waters for the people of Sumir and Accad I provided.
- 42. Written communication (circa 2,500 B.C.) Early period Hebrew pictographs
- 43. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects Stone stamp found in the Indus Valley, Pakistan (2,500 B.C.)
- 44. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects Early writing clay tablet found in Iraq (3,100 – 3,000 B.C.)
- 46. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects Jomon pot found in Japan (5,000 B.C.), contains inscription
- 47. Clovis Spear found in Arizona (11,000 B.C.) Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects
- 48. Hand outlines found on a cave wall in Indonesia are at least 39,900 years old http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/science/ancient-indonesian-find-may-rival-oldest-known-cave-art.html?_r=0
- 49. Olduvai Handaxe found at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (1.2 – 1.4 million years old) Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects
- 51. In the beginning was the Word… (90 A.D.) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος… (GK) ְּבְָּי ָהְּי תיִׁ שאֵרָאֵרב ָד ַי (HEB)
- 52. Holographic technology Biometrics including DNA computing and biomimetics Structured video and graphical content Responsive Design Writing the future of communication (2,015 A.D. and beyond)
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- 56. The call to action…
Editor's Notes
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- Hopefully, you have started to see the deeper history of how technical communicators have been there in the background performing their duties to mankind –even though they did not have a job title, a career path, or a vision of the future. Because of the modern flow of information, we are aware of how the profession of technical communication formed in the modern century. But what we may not realize is the value of looking into our roots to see how far back our roots can be traced. Understanding our history can enhance our professional status by providing credibility and it can also guide us in forming our impressions of where we are heading.