The Hummingbird Effect
The book, How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson is about six innovations that made the modern world. This book focuses on the “hummingbird effect.” It’s an innovation or group of innovations, in one field that ends up triggering changes that are all in a way connected. These can be big and chaotic, while others are more subtle. One example is, Johannesburg Gutenberg’s printing press created a demand for spectacles, which led to the invention of the microscope, and…...
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The History, Methods and Impact of the Poster
From its advent to the present day, the poster has remained an accessible art form and vehicle for communication. Although the modern-day poster is often accredited to nineteenth-century lithographer Jules Chéret, communication through visual means existed long before modernity. Some of the earliest examples of poster-like innovations can be accredited to Ancient Rome. Immovable, one-off wall paintings detailing public announcements can be traced back to first-century Pompeii. The invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century by Johannes Gutenberg…...
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Renaissance Era
Technology in the 21st century is far more different from what it was during the Renaissance. During the Renaissance they didn’t have cell phones to communicate or cars to travel easier, so how did they do it? The majority of the technology that is used today was invented during the Renaissance. We’re going to discuss how advanced technology was during the Renaissance, how complicated it was, and how it affected their daily life. Technology during the Renaissance was not nearly…...
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Technological Advances: The Time Of Industrial Revolution
Melyssa Rolon-Hansen History continues to show the advances and leaps people took to lead in social and economic changes. The Industrial Revolution, which is believed to have started in England between the 1760s and 1940s, is another pivotal point in time where big changes were being made that profoundly changed the nature of visual communications. The following are examples of inventors and their inventions in the fields of typography, photography, and printing that paved those changes in visual communications. TYPOGRAPHY…...
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The Era of Art, Inventions and Architecture
The Renaissance was a period that forever changed our society due to its art, inventions, and architecture. A key invention that was made during this time was the printing press and it forever changed our world. The first movable type printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-1400s. Before Gutenberg, books were very scarce and it took a long time to copy/write books. Many printers were using carved wooden blocks to print scrolls, but these wooden blocks wore…...
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Baroque Literature
The Black Death Greatly Improved the European Society Throughout history, many unforgettable events have affected the literature of the time: wars, revolutions, industrialization, and disease.Although many critics very quickly point out the changes in literature that the industrial revolution caused, not many of those critics are willing to dig any deeper into the past.However, the fourteenth century contained changes in literature that were just as dramatic.The repeated outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague in that century led to many significant changes…...
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