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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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1. Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line






2. First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched - 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article






3. Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second






4. The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing






5. First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched - 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article






6. The first hosts of ARPANET -Internet's ancestor - are connected.






7. The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing






8. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN






9. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






10. Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls - and write other documents on more perishable media






11. Tsai Lun invents paper






12. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston






13. Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.






14. Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers






15. Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line






16. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






17. Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas






18. Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.






19. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston






20. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






21. Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp - eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply






22. Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas






23. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






24. Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers






25. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






26. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






27. Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell-based approach which lead to 'cellular phones'






28. Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).






29. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






30. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






31. Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp - eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply






32. Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line






33. Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.






34. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






35. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






36. Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type






37. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.






38. Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second






39. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






40. Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell-based approach which lead to 'cellular phones'






41. Internet2 organization created






42. Internet2 organization created






43. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






44. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






45. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






46. Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique






47. Tsai Lun invents paper






48. The first hosts of ARPANET -Internet's ancestor - are connected.






49. Claude Elwood Shannon - the 'father of information theory' - mathematically proves the Nyquist






50. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX