I’ve just been reading a very interesting online article published by the BBC regarding predictions made by a US civil engineer. He made several predictions as to what would be happening around the world 100 years hence and many of them are amazingly accurate!

A short biography I made about Thomas Edison.

Essay: More Prisoners of Eternity.

Chances are you have seen the advert, which features an innocent looking young woman promising that she earns a ridiculous sum of money from home. She does not, and the advert is a lie.

The Pace Of Mass Communication Today Has Begun To Virtually Approach The Speed Of Light. How Can We Hope To Cope… Much Less Keep Up?

21st May, 2011 Judgement Day Self proclaimed prophecy fails.

When examining the connection involving nationalism and technology, a hub on technological determinism draws notice to the impacts technological changes have had on national societies and attitude.

Samuel Morse demonstrated his new telegraph system publicly for the first time on the 6th of January 1838 in Morristown, New Jersey. His invention of the telegraph, a device that sends electronic impulses over a wire enabling messages to be sent by code would eventually revolutionize long distance communications. The telegraph service would reach its peak of popularity in the 1920’s and 30’s before newer and more modern forms of communication would take over.

I think most people, certainly in the UK and US, are familiar with the sorry tale of Dr Crippen but would he have been tracked down if it hadn’t been for the newly invented Marconi wireless radio telegraph machine? And did you know that even now there’s some controversy over his guilt 100 years after his execution?

The first radio transmission sent across the Atlantic Ocean occurred on December 12th 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi It was exactly five years to the day after he had publicly exhibited his new discovery in London.