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BA I N A PPLI ED LI N GUI S TI CS

Computer Mediated Communication

and Language Learning

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Difference Engine (1833 , Charles Babbage )

The Difference Engine was designed to tabulate polynomial functions. Both logarithmic and trigonometric functions can be approximated by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute many useful

sets of numbers.

Analytic Engine (1835)

An important step in the history of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by the British mathematician Charles Babbage.

It was called the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer

The first typewriter

• Christopher L. Sholes•began production in late

1873 and appeared on the American

market in 1874

1876 Bell telephone

The First Telephone Call March 10, 1876 What were the first words ever spoken on the telephone? They were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."

Invention of sound recorder

he first practical sound recording and reproduction device was the mechanical phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and patented in 1878.

Daily Courant

The Daily Courant was the first regular daily newspaper to be published in the United Kingdom.

It was first published on 11 March 1702 by Edward Mallet from rooms above the White Hart pub in Fleet Street

Roll Film 1884

George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film

Dr Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language 1755

Published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.

John B. Watson, Founder of Behaviorism

Books

In 1913 published Behaviorism Manifesto

In 1914 published Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology

In 1919 published the most important book of his career, Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist

1890 – Herman Hollerith developed an electronically device named Tabulating

Machine

The tabulating machine was a machine designed to assist in tabulations. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.

1896 Herman Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Corporation .

1909 First use of phonograph in a school

1911 First record players for teaching

1924 - Hollerith Tabulating Machine becomes IBM

1932 BBC Television begins broadcasting

February 5 First educational television programme is broadcast in the US by CBS’s W2XAB.

1937 - Claude Sharmon , The information theory

Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Historically, information theory was developed to find fundamental limits on compressing and reliably communicating data

1940s The term applied applied linguistics originated in the US

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