But in 1887 the United States obtained from the Hawaiian king of Hawaiian king the exclusive right to establish a coaling and repair station. With this agreement, surveys were made of the harbor and plans were made to remove or dredge the obstructing bar. But nothing was done to improve the harbor until the island was annexed by the United States. With the ownership of the island the US government made Pearl Harbor a first class naval base. By dredging a channel
Week 1 Assignment Telecommunications Evolution Time-line MARVIN SORTOR NTC/362 Dorein Pfeil The beginning of the telecommunication industry started with a dream and some determination on a man named Alexander Graham Bell. In 1867 Bell invented the telephone the first hard-lined device. As the years went on other inventors tried to duplicate the wonders of the telephone communications device. In 1899 the name of Bell Telephone Company changed to American Telephone and Telegraph or (AT&T) as we know it today. The year 1934 marked a highlight in
The 1920s brought good and bad changes to Americans in the United States. Traditional and modern ideas collided with this this new life the twenties brought. The Harlem renaissance flourished. Changing attitudes toward women allowed the greater freedom. Writers explored new topics and depicted their lives in their pieces.
Murrow is the most distinguished and renowned figure in the history of American broadcast journalism. He was a seminal force in the creation and development of electronic news gathering as both a craft and a profession. Murrow's career began at CBS in 1935 and spanned the infancy of news and public affairs programming on radio through the ascendancy of television in the 1950s, as it eventually became the nation's most popular news medium. In 1961 Murrow left CBS to become director of the United States Information Agency for the new Kennedy administration. By that time, his peers were already referring to a “Murrow legend and tradition” of courage, integrity, social responsibility, and journalistic excellence, emblematic of the highest ideals of both broadcast news and the television industry in general.
Presidential Pseudo-Events The First World War manifested a turning point in American journalism in regard to the development of political pseudo-events and propaganda. America’s entrance into World War I is tied to the nation’s first methodical and institutionalized governmental program of propaganda. There have been only two instances in which the United States government established agencies to generate nationalistic support for war; the first time was in support of World War I and the second time was for World War II. The Committee of Public Information (CPI) was created as the media agency for World War I and it produced propaganda on an enormous scale that had never been seen in America before. The CPI was established via
Informative Essay April 17, 2013 Chamber of Commerce: Standing up for American Enterprise In the United States, the first chamber of commerce was created in 1768 in New York City. Its stated objectives encompassed "encouraging commerce, supporting industry, adjusting disputes relative to trade and navigation, and producing such laws and regulations as may be found necessary for the benefit of trade in general." Soon other chambers of commerce formed in other major cities, arising in quick succession during the 19th century, chambers of commerce spread throughout the land and today number in the thousandths. Founded as a national federation in 1912 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the national chamber was instrumental in persuading the federal government to institute a national budget and in gaining passage of the Federal Reserve Act. Its chief aims were to: stop perceived over-regulation; push down business taxes; improve labor relations; increase production, develop new markets; provide more jobs; raise
The Federal Communications Commission was created as a successor to the Federal Radio Commission, the government body that was in charge of radio communications within the United States. With the invention of television, it was obvious that a government body with a larger scale mission would be necessary, and it made sense to group a number of similar duties together. With that being said the Congress created the FCC with the Communications Act of 1934. The stated purposes of the Communications Act are "regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority theretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional
Bell Laboratories invented the transistor. Edwin Land invented the Polaroid Land camera selling for $89.75. Holography, a technique that created three-dimensional images, was created by Dennis Gabor. In 1949 Physicist Harold Lyons built the first atomic clock which was accurate to within a few seconds over fifty years. In this same year cake mix was
Antonio Meucci was an Italian inventor and also a friend and associate of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
They were both strong believers and members of the Primitive Methodist movement and they both established a strong Methodist presence in the area (City of Brampton, 2012). Brampton got its name in 1834 from these two British settlers in honour of their English home in Cumberland, England. Brampton is also called “Flowertown of Canada”, courtesy of a man known as Edward Dale who established a flower nursery making his company Brampton’s largest employer. | | Decision-making is done by Brampton City Council, which passes by-laws at each of its meetings to confirm its decisions and authorize actions by the corporation. Council passes new by-laws and amends or repeals existing by-laws, as required (City of Brampton, 2012).