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History Group Assignment

Advertisements for post-war technologies Group – Tim Kerr(Mrs Treanor), Owen Forbes, Stuart Johnston, Kai Zen (All Bowen/Yassa), Dietrich Yu (Mrs Schoonderwoerd). History Group Assignment. Entertainment – Tim Transport – Owen Housing – Kai Communication - Stuart

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History Group Assignment

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  1. Advertisements for post-war technologies Group – Tim Kerr(Mrs Treanor), Owen Forbes, Stuart Johnston, Kai Zen (All Bowen/Yassa), Dietrich Yu (Mrs Schoonderwoerd) History Group Assignment Entertainment – Tim Transport – Owen Housing – Kai Communication - Stuart Household Appliances – Dietrich

  2. Entertainment -Advertisement for Colour TV

  3. Ad for Colour TV – Student Designed Tired of watching television in the same old boring black and white? Well now you don’t have to, with the new colour television from AWA televisions! Enjoy all your favourite programs in full colour! Buy this brand new 34 cm colour television for only 499 dollars!!!

  4. Impact on Australian Life – Entertainment: Colour TVs • The colour television has profoundly changed the way that Australians enjoy entertainment, providing a greater variety of entertainment options, and evolutions in the field of colour televisions during the post-war period have enabled more Australians to enjoy the experience of a colour television. While the original televisions could cost between 10 and 15 weeks of a worker’s wages, and were typically big and bulky, they have become cheaper and more easily transportable. • Colour televisions have allowed Australian’s to become more immersed in the programs on television, especially bringing news and current affairs into a more easily understood medium. These televisions were extremely useful at providing thought provoking images, such as during the Vietnam war, and the colour television has greatly magnified the power of the television media to assert itself into everyday life, taking advantage of the colour to make the media program more appealing to audiences.

  5. Housing: Home Solar Panels

  6. Ad For Solar Panels – Student Designed

  7. Impact on Australian Life – Housing: Solar Panels • The advent of solar energy has allowed individual homes to reduce their power consumption. • Solar panels for the purpose of electrical generation or more commonly water heating have been popularised particularly because of government incentives. • As a result, many homes in Australia now employ the use of solar panels, in an effort to reduce power costs. • This has allowed individuals to both save money on energy bills and also helps reduce the carbon footprint. • Heated water is an application in most Australian’s day to day lives. It is used for dishwashing, laundry, personal hygiene, food processing, etc.

  8. Transport Advertisement – Boeing Airplanes

  9. Ad for transport – Student Designed The Audio-Tactile Pedestrian Detector (ATPD) helps hundreds of thousands of visually and/or aurally impaired persons, and normal pedestrians, to safely cross the street all over Australia, the USA and Singapore daily. Many people do not realise the great impact it has, as an Australian invention, on the lives of so many people, and their safe pedestrian transport.

  10. Impact on Australian Life – Transport: The Audio-Tactile Pedestrian Detector • The Audio-Tactile Pedestrian Detector, known to most of us as just the ‘button at the pedestrian crossing’, is an Australian invention that has received less than its deserved credit and attention, as it has and continues to be an extremely important development in the history of transport, and has had significant effects on transport in post-war Australia. A joint initiative of Louis A. Challis and Associates Pty Ltd, and the RTA, the ATPD was invented between 1980 and 1985, and production since 1985 has been handled by 3 manufacturers. The ATPD every day makes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Australia and other nations/states where the product had been exported to – the USA and Singapore – so much safer when they use pedestrian transport infrastructure. Because crossing busy roads is such a frequent occurrence in these countries, this invention has had extremely wide usage and exposure, with the probable majority of Australians having used the ATPD at some point. The ATPD is so effective because of its clever design. It improved on previous designs with its extreme sturdiness, and ease of use by tactile and aural means. The button on the ATPD is designed to withstand millions of presses. The raised arrow lets visually impaired pedestrians know the direction of the crossing, and the vibrating square in the middle of it assists visually and aurally impaired people by sending a strong tactile signal to someone touching the ATPD. Not only this, but a widely known and clear sound signal resonates from the device, coupled with the universally recognised ‘Green Man’ and ‘Red Man’ solid and flashing signals for Go, Don’t Start and Stop, combine to make a very effective and safe device. The Audio-Tactile Pedestrian Detector is a device that many Australians and people from other countries do not give much thought to, but in reality it is an extremely valuable and important Australian innovation that is very important in the history of post-war transport technology, and keeps countless pedestrians safe every day around the world.

  11. Communication Advertisement – Mobile Phone Advertisement of a mobile phone showing the key features.

  12. Ad for communication – Student Designed

  13. Impact on Australian Life – Communication: The Internet • The Internet should be chosen as an object of significant importance as it has had a very significant impact on everyday life in Australia. The always-on and accessible anywhere nature of the internet allows to connect from a variety of different platforms in a wide array of areas, from the middle of an arid desert to home in suburbia. •  The Internet has revolutionised our communication methods and how we can communicate with each other. It has allowed us to have instantaneous communication with people all over the world, and has provided the possibility for global business and communication regardless of time-zones. Sending an email is instant and completely free, and allows the receiver to read it from anywhere in the world. In contrast to a paper letter, which must be paid for, collected at the delivered address and physically taken to read wherever you are. •  It has provided us with a medium for incredible research potential. This has been utilised in the recent concept of cloud-computing, where the power of all computers universally can be utilised to search for cancer-causing strains or assist in decoding the human genome. On a far smaller scale, the Internet can be used as a source of academic research, with sites like Google Scholar allowing users to search through scientific journals to find information. •  We are also offered limitless possibilities for creativity and entertainment. Thousands of sites have sprung up to supply the demand of users, including sites that allow you to draw and critique the images of other users down to sites dedicated to information on games or thousands of games that you can play straight in your web browser. •  Without the Internet, these revolutions would not have been possible and would have been nearly impossible to accomplish otherwise.

  14. Home Appliances Advertisement – Microwave Oven

  15. Ad for Home Appliances – Student Designed Tired of spending all day cooking only to often end up serving your family an overcooked dinner??? Well, the electric oven is here to help. Simple to operate and completely safe, it really is as easy as putting the food in and turning a knob. With the peace of mind that your food will be perfectly cooked every time, you can better focus on looking after the home!

  16. Impact on Australian Life – Home appliances: Microwave Oven • Released for commercial and later domestic use in the 1950’s, the sale and use of microwave ovens grew rapidly in the 1970’s, and in the 21st century they are one of the most common appliances in kitchens. • They have found everyday use as a fast and convenient way to reheat leftovers, and microwave dinners are fairly popular in both homes and offices. • For many people with little time or cooking skills, they are an easy way to create good food quickly.

  17. Bibliography • Housinghttp://www.need.org/needpdf/infobook_activities/SecInfo/SolarS.pdfhttp://www.conergy.com.au/desktopdefault.aspxEntertainmenthttp://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/08/page/2/http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_103966/article.htmlTransporthttp://202.125.172.193/__data/assets/image/0005/32297/audio_pedestrian.jpghttp://www.powerhousemuseum.com/australia_innovates/?behaviour=view_article&Section_id=1080&article_id=10081http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L8BTRutV0uk/Rk0T_9fe1wI/AAAAAAAAAU0/53HAAb8ShD0/s400/Boeing+Ad+1980.jpgHome Applianceshttp://nicolenwick.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/microwaves-slot-machines-and-prayer/http://myrearinsears.blogspot.com/2007/12/giant-microwave-oven.htmlCommunicationhttp://www.sonyericsson.com/retail/admin/files/uploaded/K550_retail_training.pdf • http://www.socialsignal.com/blog/alexandra-samuel/how-social-web-can-nourish-your-most-personal-relationship • http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10879_11-6184-7.html

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