CHAPTER TWELVE
INFORMATION TRANSMISSION
Performance objectives
By the end of this theme the students should be able to:
1. Define information transmission
2. Lists ancient methods of transmitting information
3. Identify modern methods of transmitting information
4. Group the means of transmitting information as electronic and non-electronic 5. Identify modes of receiving information 6. Classify information by mode of receiving the information.UNIT ONE: INFORMATION TRANSMISSION
12.1. ANCIENT METHODS OF TRANSMITTING INFORMATION
Information transmission is the process by which information is transferred from one place to another. This transmission could be from a person to an another person; village to village, local government to local government, state to state, etc. There are various methods used for the transmission of information during the ancient period. The important ones are:
12.1.1. Oral- Town criers
12.1.2. Oral messengers
12.1.3. Beating drums
12.1.4. Fire lighting
12.1.5. Making Representation- Diagrams/Paintings , Symbol And Alphabets Representing Objects
12.1.1. ORAL- TOWN CRIERS Town criers are people called village messengers. They move from one part of a village to the other delivering verbal messages from the king or rulers.
12.1.2. ORAL- MESSENGERS
Messengers are similar to the town criers. However, they defer in the sense that the messengers mostly convey written messages.
12.1.3. BEATING DRUMS
Drums were also use to send information during the ancient period. The nature or tune of drumbeats indicates the approaching of an enemy or celebration/festival taking place in a village.
12.1.4. FIRE LIGHTING
Fire beacons were also used to send signals of the direction of a village or the position of a missing person.
12.1.5. Making representations- symbols, drawings etc
Our ancestors used to store, data and information in form of symbols, diagrams etc on walls, rocks surfaces etc. And in the present day such diagrams called pictograms. E.g. Hospital signs, red cross signs, Road crossing signs etc
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