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How did Division of Labor lead to Television?

8 steps · 7 domains · 8,927 years

  1. Division of Labor~7,000 BC (craft specialists) · 7,000 BCSplitting work so each person does one thing well instead of everything badly — the arrangement that turns food surplus into every other profession.
  2. これを必要としたのが—— それを可能にした
    Agriculture~9,500 BC · 9,500 BCTurning a patch of land into a repeating calorie machine by planting and tending chosen crops — the surplus that made cities, writing, and everything after them possible.
  3. それを可能にした

    A dependable surplus of sugar-rich grain, fruit, or honey is the feedstock; foragers rarely had enough in one place to spare for brewing.

    Fermentation~6,000 BC (widespread); chemically attested by ~7,000 BC · 6,000 BCLiving microbes — chiefly yeast — eating the sugars in grain, fruit, or honey and excreting alcohol and carbon dioxide. Humanity's first controlled chemistry, run entirely by organisms no one could see.
  4. これを必要としたのが—— それを作れるものにした

    Fermentation needs a vessel that holds liquid for weeks and can be sealed against air — the first job of the sealed jar.

    Pottery~18,000 BC · 18,000 BCClay shaped by hand and hardened in fire — among the first materials humans transformed permanently into a new, durable substance, giving them sealed vessels that could store food and, above all, boil it.
  5. それを作れるものにした
    Glass~1,500 BC (vessels) · 1,500 BCSand melted with a flux of soda or plant ash until it fuses into a transparent solid — shapeable while hot, rigid and chemically inert forever after.
  6. それを可能にした

    The bulb must be transparent, sealable, and able to hold a vacuum around the filament — a glassblower's job.

    Electric lighting1879 · 1879 ADLight from heat: pass current through a thin filament with enough resistance and it glows white-hot without burning up, because it sits in a glass bulb emptied of the oxygen it would otherwise combust in.
  7. これを必要としたのが—— それを可能にした

    A filament lamp is only as useful as its power supply; central-station dynamos, not batteries, made lighting a household service.

    Electric Generator1831 AD · 1831 ADFaraday's discovery that moving a magnet past a wire induces current — mechanical motion converted directly into electricity.
  8. それを作れるものにした
    Vacuum Tube (Triode)1906 AD · 1906 ADA light bulb's evil twin: electrons boiled off a hot filament in a vacuum, steered by a metal grid — the first electronic amplifier and switch.
  9. それを可能にした

    The camera tube, the receiving screen, and every amplifier in between are vacuum-tube devices; electronic scanning is impossible without them.

    Television1927 (first electronic image) · 1927 ADSending a moving picture through the air by breaking it into a fast stream of light-values, one point at a time, and reassembling it at the far end fast enough that the eye sees a whole scene. The winning method scanned the image with a steered beam of electrons, not a spinning disk.

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