Simple idea, turns out the 'beep' sound of electronic devices has very deep meaning and origin

The sound marked the turning point of an era.

Living at the time of 2019, you are too familiar with the sound of 'beep': the microwave is rotating lunch, the smoke alarm when you see the food spinning in the fire-burning oven, Alexa / Siri / Google Assistant start up recommend that you call fire, and millions of other technology items.

Just like a car horn, the next beep has a unique use: attracting your attention to the technology item that just made a beep. But its history is long, much longer than you think, from before the era of mechanical technology.

The starting point of the beep from the Space Age , when the first artificial satellite Sputnik transmitted to the ground the beeps , signaling to the control station that it was doing its job well.

Sputnik satellite.

In the special CBS News newsletter, the first 18 seconds were the pre-recorded beep, followed immediately by host Edwards Edwards: 'Until two days ago, the sound you just heard never appeared on this Earth. Then suddenly, it became part of the 20th century as well as the noise coming from your home vacuum cleaner. '

Sputnik stormed across all parts of the Earth, major newspapers simultaneously reported hot news about the technology marking a new era of emergence, the era of Cosmic discovery, Space Age - Space Age. The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune put the specific flight schedule of the first artificial satellite, The New York Times explained why the popular radio could not catch Sputnik's beep.

But Sputnik himself did not contribute much to science, it had a simple meaning: to show the technological power of the Russians. Americans have another thought: Four months after Sputnik's departure, the US successfully launched Explorer 1, the satellite carrying the most advanced scientific tools.

Instantly, Explorer 1 made an important milestone, the first major discovery of the Space Age: the existence of the Van Allen radiation circle surrounding the Earth.

But science is so boring, not many people care about a ring of Earth above, but people are interested in what is right before their eyes and ears: the "beep" of Sputnik satellite . For any lucky person who hears the sound that has never been seen before, they all feel lucky to hear a very high tech sound for the first time.

The word "beep", which stands in the dictionary form, describes the sound of a car horn, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary from 1929. Before "beep" evolved into a call of the future, the first person using the word 'beep' to describe electronic device activity is the fictional science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, when he wrote the novel The Sands of Mars - Martian Sand in 1951.

If you don't know yet, Arthur C. Clarke is perhaps best known for writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on a science film of the same name as the script written by Clarke himself and the director of the talent Stanley Kubrick. Writing, there is content about an artificial intelligence that evolved for more awareness. He was dubbed the 'Prophet of the Space Age', with a series of science fiction works that speak ahead of the future of technology.

Talking about Sputnik again, the 21-day 'beep' runs out of battery, but it took too much time for the beep itself to become an icon for electronic devices. But like all other sounds, hearing more is definitely boring, so there is a 'disease' named 'tired due to alarm - alarm fatigue; According to research, a beep can cause doctors, nurses or health professionals to reduce their performance.

But the disturbing story still shows the influence of beeps on modern society. Like a day after Sputnik came up, NBC News announced:

'Listen to the sound that has forever separated the old and the new'.

A saying describes the exact word "beep" until later.