You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
-excerpt from the song Revolution by The Beatles
On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell first transmitted the sound of his voice using telegraph wires to his assistant Thomas A. Watson. Bell and Watson experimented first with acoustic telegraphy in 1874 and 1875. According to Wikipedia.com, Watson accidentally plucked one of the reeds and Bell at the receiving end of the wire heard the overtones of the reed, overtones that would be necessary for transmitting speech which led to the “gallows” sound-powered telephone, which was able to transmit indistinct voice like sounds, but it was not a clear speech. But when Bell experimented with a water transmitter, using an acid-water mixture, with Watson again at the receiving end, the words he spoke was heard clearly. Since then, the telephone has revolutionized the way we live, socialize, and do business. From then on, The Bell Telephone Company was created in 1877, and in 1886, over 150,000 people in the United States owned telephones. Bell company engineers made numerous improvements to the telephone which developed into one of the most successful products to date.
Indeed, Bell started a revolution in communication. Communication is a process which has evolved over time from the traditional medium. It is evident today that communication and the way we communicate has changed drastically. Even the telephone systems has evolved and has surpassed many boundaries. Now, phone system transmits more than just voice conversations, thanks to faxes and modems. Faxes scan a document, encodes the pattern of light and dark into digital signals and sends those signals over the phone line with a built in modem. However, with the advent of the Internet, the Internet has developed several methods of sending and receiving fax. This involves using a fax and the Internet to convert fax to emails or vice versa. Experts say that web-based services offer a quick and easy way to share documents without being tied down to the traditional fax machine and one of the practical tools they have discovered online.
Internet faxing is a simple solution that does not need great technical knowledge or a change in habits. You can use these services to send and receive faxes. It is usually as transmitted as a Portable Document Format (PDF) attachments by e-mail. You can send or receive faxes anywhere through a mobile computer, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or smartphone (a mobile phone with personal computer like functions) that has wireless Web access.
Although traditional means of communication will never be eradicated, it is important to understand that technology has aided us in the way we interact and communicate. Thanks to Bell's inventive mind and his great passion for communication, it paved the way for developing new channels of communication. Ideas, thoughts, and information are now easily transmitted over channels such as the telephone or a fax. The ability to communicate is now very accessible and can be deemed the most powerful attribute a human being possesses, and as such communication has truly evolved and has certainly changed our world.
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