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1) The essay topic I am doing is advances in technology over the era’s and where it has brought us to today.
Title:
A history of technology : the twentieth century c.1900 to c.1950. Part 1.
Publication:
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1978.
Description:
7 vols. : ill, plans, port ; 26cm.
Notes:
Bibl. - Index.
Contents:
v. 1. From early times to fall of ancient empires. v. 2. The mediterranean civilizations and the middle ages. v. 3. From the renaissance to the industrial revolutionc1500-c1750. v. 4. The industrial revolutionc1750 to c1850. v. 5. The late nineteenth centuryc1850 to c1900. v. 6. The twentieth centuryc1900 to c1950. Part 1. v. 7. The twentieth centuryc1900 to c1950 Part 2.
ISBN:
0198581513
Subjects:
Technology -- History.

2)

Title:
The history of the telephone [electronic resource] / by Herbert N. Casson.
Author:
Casson, Herbert Newton, 1869-
Publication:
Champaign, Ill. : Project Gutenberg ; Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, [199-?]
Notes:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN:
0585014574 (electronic bk.)
Subjects:
Telephone -- History.
Form/Genre:
Electronic books.
Other Authors:
NetLibrary, Inc.
I choose this particular text as I want to immerse myself in the history behind the technological advances in the way that we communicate today, and one of the main ways we communicate is via the telephone. So this book will help me understand the full history behind this important tool.


Title:
A history of technology & invention : progress through the ages. Volume 3, the expansion of mechanization 1725-1860 / Edited by Maurice Daumas ; translated by Eileen B. Hennessy.
Author:
Daumas, Maurice.
Publication:
New York : Crown Publishers, c1979.
Description:
ix, 758p : illus., facsims., maps ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Translation of Histoire generale des techniques.Includes bibliographies.
Subjects:
Technology -- History.
Related Title:
The expansion of mechanization 1725-1860.
This text would be very beneficial when writing my essay as this book is completely relevant towards my essay topic. As I want to explain the technological advances through the ages and this book includes the history behind it all.


Title:
Communication and new media : from broadcast to narrowcast / Martin Hirst and John Harrison.
Author:
Hirst, Martin
Publication:
South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:
xix, 420 p. ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Presents a new way of looking at media and mass communication. Traces the history, development and theories of mass communication and the emergence of new media. Looks at questions of ethics, regulation and governance.
ISBN:
9780195553550 (Pbk)9780195553550 (pbk.) :0195553551 (pbk.) :
Course Code:
CMM16
Subjects:
Communication Mass media
Other Authors:
Harrison, John, (John Murray), 1952-
Although it is the text book, it will be very beneficial when writing my essay, as it touches on most of the important technological advances over the eras.

3) http://mail.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2003/0027.html
You can join this websites mail list and they keep you informed in the recent advances in technology and also the telecommunication market. This website would be beneficial as I would be receiving mail that informs me of any changes in technology that have recently occurred.

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The overall basis of my assignment invloves around the advances of technolgu over the era's, focusing on the advances of the telephone. I decided on this particular advance as I today as a teenager could not live without my mobile phone, it is my main form of commincation. In my essay i will go into more depth about where the telephone started and where it has come to today in the present century. Also, how people today rely more on technology to communicate, rather than face to face communication.