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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






2. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






13. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






14. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






17. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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






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






21. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






22. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






23. Internet2 organization created






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






25. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






27. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






28. Internet2 organization created






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






30. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






31. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






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






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






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






37. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






38. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






39. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






41. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






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






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






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






47. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






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