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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






2. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






3. Internet2 organization created






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






5. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






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






9. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






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






13. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






15. Internet2 organization created






16. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






18. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






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






21. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






23. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






25. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






27. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






38. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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