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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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1. Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use






2. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






3. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






4. Tsai Lun invents paper






5. Internet2 organization created






6. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






7. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






8. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






11. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






14. Internet2 organization created






15. Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signaling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun






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






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






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






19. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






20. Tsai Lun invents paper






21. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






22. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






23. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






24. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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






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






30. Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use






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






32. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






33. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






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






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






38. Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection






39. Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signaling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






47. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






50. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing