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Born in Charleston, Dinah Johnson is a graduate of Spring Valley High School in Columbia, went to college at Princeton University, and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University. Now a resident of Columbia...
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C. Hope Clark lives in Chapin, S.C. Hope has one Oepington and one Dominiquer Hen as her pets and is the managing editor for fundsforwriters.com. She is a mystery writer and discusses techniques she...
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Born in Sumter, Carla Damron now lives just outside Columbia. She draws on her experiences as a Southerner and a social worker with over twenty years in the mental health system, where she says, her...
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We have come a long way and now, “The sky’s the limit.” We have regular television, known as terrestrial (land), cable which brings signals through underground cable, microwave signal transmission...
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Television is a way of sending and receiving moving images and sounds over wires or through the air by electrical impulses. The big breakthrough in technology was the ability to send sound and...
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The first American television broadcast was exhibited at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. The fair’s theme was “Worlds of Tomorrow” and RCA set up twelve televisions, which broadcast events...
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The next advancement in telecommunications was radio, the first wireless mode of communication. Radios send messages by radio waves instead of wires. German scientist Heinrich Hertz proved the...
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PICTURED ABOVE: Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone The first reliable electronic telegraph machines were built in the 1830s when an American named Samuel Morse developed a telegraph...
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Telecommunications is the word we use for the science and technology of sending messages using electricity. This includes the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and computers. These instruments...
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In 1895, the discovery of X-rays allowed doctors to see into the body without cutting it open. In less than a century, an entire medical specialty developed based on this discovery called radiology...