1. Daniel Ward
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2. Trends of communication throughout
U.S. History is an interesting subject
to think about. By looking at these
trends, we can see where we began
regarding communication
methods, what communication
methods we use today, and
communication methods in between.

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In 1852, the first delivery company was established to deliver packages,
gold and newspapers. This company was Wells Fargo. Transporting these
newspapers helped American citizens to receive important news affecting
everyone’s lives.
Enhanced transportation helped to make this communication method
process much easier. The Pony Express was established which led to
delivering this information through rail, automobiles (thanks to highways).

4. *
In 1844 the Whig Party nominated their candidate, Henry
Clay, by way of telegraph. The electric telegraph sends signals
via wires from one location to another. This made
communication much easier than using transportation for
relaying messages to different parties.

5. *
In 1875: Alexander Graham Bell used a bi-directional telephone
that was able to transmit "voice-like sounds", but not clear
speech. Both the transmitter and the receiver was developed. In
1876, Graham successfully transmits a full sentence using the
telephone. Because of this, there became less need of a
telegraph because voice recognition was now present.

6. *
Commercial radio began in America in 1920 and became widely
used by citizens to hear about political news. It now became
extremely easy for the government to communicate with all
Americans. Although this opened the door for entertainment
purposes, historical events like the great depression and
developments of World War II .

7. *
In 1949 that the very first telephone pager was patented by Al
Gross. This allowed someone to call a phone number, leave a
digital number which would appear on the beeper screen which is
held in someone’ s pocket or belt buckle of another person. This
notification pinged someone to let them know to use another
means of communication to contact them.

8. *
Mobile Phones were produced in 1983 by a company called
Ameritech. Now communication was possible from person to
person while on the go. The was, at the time, the most
convenient way of communicating since it could be done while
traveling.

9. Let's give thanks to history
for leading us to the
communication methods
that we have today!

10. *
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