EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation: The first model pf communication was developed by Shannon and Weaver to send and receive messages or transfer information from sender to receiver. This was mainly designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies. Therefore, the development area was technological theory.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Development of the Telephone While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is a model which it’s only focus is the speaker and the message. This gave us the concept of “noise". This is also often called as Telephone Model because it is based on the experience of having the message interfered with by “noise” from the telephone switchboard back in 1940s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Entropy refers to the message that conveys unpredictable information to the receiver. So here entropy is related to the order or sequence in which the message is transferred through a channel to the receiver.