<p> Introduction to Media</p><p>Objective: By the end of the lesson you will have discovered key dates in the history of the media and begun to create a media timeline</p><p>A. Answer the following questions</p><p>For information — Websites used to create this research task: www.ask.co.uk, www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk, www.bbc.co.uk and www.bl.uk</p><p>1. First of all, before logging on to any websites, take a guess at how old you think the media is.</p><p>2. When was the ‘Diamond Sutra’ printed?</p><p>3. Who mastered the printing technique of ‘casting and setting’? When?</p><p>4. When did William Caxton patent his printing press?</p><p>5. What was the name of the first text he published and when was it published? </p><p>6. What was the first text published in English and when? </p><p>7. When was the first English newspaper published? (This is a trick question because although it was published in the English language it was printed in Amsterdam!)</p><p>8. When was the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays published?</p><p>9. When was the BBC established?</p><p>10. When was the first tabloid newspaper established and what was the name of the paper?</p><p>11. When was the first typewriter patented and by whom?</p><p>12. Who invented the modern computer and when?</p><p>13. Who invented the first camera and when?</p><p>© 2006 www.teachit.co.uk 09000a73f6abbb0eb3b8da191d6b5572.doc Page 1 of 3 Introduction to Media 14. When was the gramophone invented?</p><p>15. Which company launched the first CD player and when?</p><p>16. When was the VCR (video cassette recorder) invented?</p><p>17. When was the DVD invented?</p><p>18. What was the first film with sound and when was it filmed?</p><p>19. When was the first commercial radio station?</p><p>20. What was the first advertisement on commercial television and when was it shown?</p><p>21. When was breakfast television launched? </p><p>22. Do you now wish to adjust your answer to Question 1?</p><p>B. Using the information gained above, create a media timeline, starting with the earliest date and finishing with the most recent.</p><p>© 2006 www.teachit.co.uk 09000a73f6abbb0eb3b8da191d6b5572.doc Page 2 of 3 Introduction to Media</p><p>Answers</p><p>1. Approximately 5,500 years old (In 3500 BC, pictographs of accounts written on clay tablets – www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/alltime.html)</p><p>2. AD 868</p><p>3. Koreans, c. 1377</p><p>4. 1475</p><p>5. Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’, 1476</p><p>6. Tyndale’s New Testament 1526</p><p>7. 1620</p><p>8. 1623</p><p>9. 1922</p><p>10. 1896, Daily Mail</p><p>11. 1744, Henry Mills</p><p>12. 1840, Charles Babbage / 1945, Alan Turing</p><p>13. 1839, Louis Dagiere</p><p>14. 1888</p><p>15. 1983, Sony/Phillips</p><p>16. 1971</p><p>17. 1994</p><p>18. 1927, The Jazz Singer</p><p>19. 1973, LBC (London Broadcasting Corporation)</p><p>20. 1955, Gibbs SR toothpaste</p><p>21. 1983</p><p>22. As Question 1</p><p>© 2006 www.teachit.co.uk 09000a73f6abbb0eb3b8da191d6b5572.doc Page 3 of 3</p>