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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






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






3. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






6. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






7. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






9. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






10. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






11. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






12. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






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






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






17. Internet2 organization created






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






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






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






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






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






23. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






24. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






27. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






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






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






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






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






33. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






38. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






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






44. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






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






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






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






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