The History of the Walkie Talkie
The first Walkie Talkie was invented in 1938 by Alfred Gross when he was 12 years old. He invented the Walkie Talkie because he was interested in wireless communication.
A Walkie Talkie is a wireless two way phone. There are six main parts to a Walkie Talkie. They are a transmitter, receiver, crystals, speaker, microphone and a power source. The transmitter sends your voice through the speaker to the other person.
Walkie Talkies were first used by the military in the Second World War. They were very heavy and carried in backpacks and they had a handset that looked like a phone. These Walkie Talkies enabled the military to communicate with each other behind enemy lines and back to the base.
It was not until 1970 that these communication tools became widely known about. Motorola began to produce smaller ones and the ability to hold ‘secret’ conversations with friends thrilled children.
Today Walkie Talkies are used by children, hunters, forestry works, truckies, police officers, fire fighters and many other emergency services. In today’s society Walkie Talkies are a lot smaller and are either hand held or fixed to the dash board of a vehicle.
Report written by Bailey and Jesse.

This Term our inquiry learning is around Communication Through The Ages
This is our report on Pigeon Post. Hope you like it :)

Communication Through Pigeon Post

Pigeon post is mail which is carried by pigeons. The first pigeons that lived inside and were bred to deliver post were found in ancient Egypt . Around the time of Moses the Egyptian used pigeons to deliver messages. The letters they carried were slipped under rings on the pigeon legs. The Greeks and Romans both used pigeon post to send messages and information.
Pigeon post was the fastest communication for all in world war one (1914-1918). During world war one the American army kept thousand of pigeons. Many pigeons worked in the military service, carrying message and military material from place to place. In the war the Germans caught some of the birds, and responded by shooting anyone they caught who sent a pigeon aloft with information.
It was at one point a trendy method of sending mail but pigeon post did have some drawbacks. People used birds that were trained to go back to a spot so in order to send a message you had to have the right bird. In a way pigeon could be the first form of airmail.

Reported by Niamh and Saskia