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Timeline Of Communication Technology
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1. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone
1844
1901
1520
1889
2. Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.
1958
1966
Prior to 3500BC
1989
3. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph
Prior to 3500BC
1925
1966
1831
4. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.
1843
1835
1971
Prior to 3500BC
5. Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp - eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply
1844
1877
Prior to 3500BC
1925
6. Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas
751
1925
7th century
1989
7. Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type
3500s BC
1844
1963
1450
8. Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell-based approach which lead to 'cellular phones'
1989
1831
3500s BC
1947
9. Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line
1992
1877
1793
1958
10. Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas
751
1989
1994
1831
11. First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched - 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article
1844
1963
1844
1831
12. Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls - and write other documents on more perishable media
16th century BC
1971
1989
7th century
13. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet
AD 26-37
3500s BC
16th century BC
1977
14. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
1991
1877
1889
1947
15. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland
1901
1947
1835
1877
16. Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp - eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply
1971
1966
1844
1876
17. Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type
1963
1450
1963
1843
18. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal
1958
1949
1925
1977
19. Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection
1966
1958
1305
1877
20. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code
1977
1889
1901
1835
21. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing
1849
1450
1305
1949
22. Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers
1963
1971
1849
1843
23. The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing
Prior to 3500BC
3500s BC
751
1963
24. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston
1520
1991
1877
1876
25. The first hosts of ARPANET -Internet's ancestor - are connected.
1947
1844
1969
AD 26-37
26. Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line
1971
1844
3500s BC
1843
27. Claude Elwood Shannon - the 'father of information theory' - mathematically proves the Nyquist
1994
1949
16th century BC
1849
28. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal
1305
1925
1994
Prior to 3500BC
29. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX
1949
1977
105
1958
30. Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.
7th century
3500s BC
1969
Prior to 3500BC
31. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX
1958
1989
1977
1877
32. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone
1877
751
1876
1889
33. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code
1949
1305
1835
1994
34. The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing
1793
1450
3500s BC
16th century BC
35. Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique
1942
7th century
1958
1969
36. Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.
1520
1843
7th century
1969
37. Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers
1831
AD 26-37
1849
Prior to 3500BC
38. Claude Elwood Shannon - the 'father of information theory' - mathematically proves the Nyquist
1843
1793
1949
3500s BC
39. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland
1942
1450
1831
1901
40. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet
16th century BC
1966
1849
105
41. Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use
1305
1958
1889
Prior to 3500BC
42. Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls - and write other documents on more perishable media
1901
1305
7th century
1843
43. Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection
16th century BC
1966
1520
1992
44. Tsai Lun invents paper
105
751
1925
1520
45. Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use
1843
1831
1889
1958
46. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN
1305
1877
1843
1989
47. Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signaling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun
1901
AD 26-37
1305
1947
48. Internet2 organization created
1925
1966
1992
1991
49. Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).
1969
7th century
1963
1994
50. Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line
1877
1305
1947
1793